In this thirteenth annual report, the Commissioner of Education discusses the Bureau of Education's work, with a list of its publications from the year. The Commissioner also presents summary data of institutions, instructors, and students; school age, population, enrolment, and attendance; legal school ages in the United States; teachers employed in the public schools and their average monthly salaries, annual income and expenditure for public schools. The following are also included and discussed: summary of per capita expenditure; statistical generalization by years and topics; compulsory school laws; summary of the educational condition of the States and Territories; comparative statistics of education in the South, with figures respecting the education of the colored race; Peabody fund; summary of school statistics of cities; school population, accommodation, and attendance in cities; truancy in cities; tendencies in urban school instruction; grading in city schools; evening schools in cities and city school finances; school system of Washington, D.C.; summary of normal school statistics; appropriations for normal schools; observations of Dr. McLellan, inspector of high schools in Ontario, respecting normal school instruction in the United States; normal instruction in New York State; pedagogics in universities and colleges; provision in other countries for training teachers; summary of statistics of commercial and business colleges; summary of statistics of Kindergarten; charity work of Kindergarten; public schools and Kindergarten; French view of American Kindergarten work; summary of statistics of pupils receiving secondary (including preparatory) instruction; summary of statistics of preparatory schools; secondary instruction in Great Britain; overwork in secondary schools in Germany; summary of statistics of institutions for the superior education of women; higher education of women in Great Britain and on the continent; summary of statistics of universities and colleges; summary of statistics of schools of science; preparation for industrial arts; education in agriculture; instruction in practical mechanics; manual training schools; electrical engineering; Rose Polytechnic Institute; institutions needed for industrial education; summary of statistics of schools of theology; summary of statistics of schools of law; summary of statistics of schools of medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy; review of progress in medical education; medical schools for the colored race; medical school of Harvard University; summary of statistics of degrees conferred; summary of statistics of public libraries; summary of statistics of training schools for nurses; summary of statistics of institutions for the deaf and dumb; summary of statistics of schools for the blind; visit of Dr. Wm. Moon; summary of statistics of schools for the feeble-minded; summary of statistics of reform schools; protection of foreign-born children; summary of statistics of orphan homes and asylums; summary of educational benefactions; summary of educational publications; summary of patents for improvements in school furniture; education in foreign countries; technical instruction in Europe; Public Industrial Art School of the City of Philadelphia; congresses and exhibitions; forestry; forthcoming publications of the Bureau of Education; and recommendations. Abstracts and an index are included.