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This volume contains the remaining two parts of the 1890-'91 Commissioner of Education report. Part II includes: name register; history and status of public kindergarten and ecoles gardiennes in several European countries; statistical summaries of city public schools; secondary schools; higher education; professional schools; education in southwestern Virginia; report on education in Alaska; education of the colored race; class intervals in city public schools; educational statistics; discussion of current educational questions; report to the British Medical Association and Charity Organization Society of London on the physical and mental condition of 50,000 children seen in 106 schools of London; and facilities in experimental psychology in the colleges of the United States. Part III includes statistical tables pertaining to: kindergartens; population; property; public high schools; endowed academies, seminaries, and other private secondary schools; private secondary schools; universities and colleges for men only, and for both sexes; colleges for women (Division A); colleges for women (Division B); schools of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, nurse training, theology, and law; schools for training teachers both under and not under State or municipal control; business colleges; schools for the colored race; schools for the deaf; schools for the feeble-minded; and reform schools. A list of historical societies, a list of other learned societies, and an index are included. [For Part I, see ED617454 (Volume 1).]

Volume I begins with the Commissioner of Education's introduction of the 1908 report. Chapter I is on current topics and discusses education relations, including professor, teacher and student exchanges. International congresses are discussed, including the first international congress of mothers, parents' national education union, universal congress on the Esperanto language, international congresses on advancing drawing and art teaching, historical sciences, orientalists, the blind, moral education, domestic economy and home industry instruction, the Peninsular War, and the Pan-American scientific congress. Education commissions in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, and North Dakota are covered. The work of several education boards and associations are summarized. Additional current topics covered are teachers' colleges, agriculture and mechanic arts teacher training, graduate schools, establishing a National University of the United States, industrial education, journalism courses, coeducation in the U.S. and foreign countries, school hygiene, compulsory attendance and child labor laws, public school fraternities, student advisors, teacher pension funds, school-official changes, and short miscellaneous news. Chapter II covers education-related legislation considered in the first session of the 69th Congress by agency, proposed legislation, and state public-education legislation from October 1, 1906, to October 1, 1907. Chapter III and Chapter IV provide data and discussion on education across sectors in Porto Rico [sic] and in the Philippines, respectively. Chapter V reviews modern higher education in Spanish-American countries. Chapter VI addresses British and Irish education in 1907-08, including education bills before Parliament, education across sectors, and education in London. Chapter VII provides data and discussion on French education across sectors as well as the Musée Pédagogique. Chapter VIII covers education in Central Europe, including Prussian school statistics, feeding German school children, suicide among German school children, Prussian teachers' salaries, Saxon normal school course, Prussian "middle schools," German-American secondary-school teacher exchange, German agricultural education, German girls' education, Prussian trade and vocational schools, and the Swiss school system. Chapter IX addresses current topics in foreign education, including German universities and government employment, Chinese education progress, reorganization of Prussian girl's schools, Belgian education administration, and Italian education. Chapter X lists foreign institutions of higher education in 1907. Chapter XI provides an educational directory of chief state school officers; city superintendents; presidents of men's colleges, coeducational liberal arts colleges, and technology schools; women's college presidents; university and college pedagogy professors and department heads; and public and private normal school principals. [For Volume 2, see ED620664.]

After the Commissioner of Education's introduction, Volume 1 presents state school system statistics and a list of U.S. Bureau of Education publications. Chapters cover central European education; Ohio public school legislative history; school consolidation and pupil transportation; U.S. industrial education; educational pathology; formation of an international association for advancement of science, arts, and education; education and training for the railroad industry; nervous system development and movement; inhibition and child restlessness; common schools in Louisiana, Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas; Southern common-school education from the beginning of the Civil War to 1870-1876, including freemen's elementary education in Washington during the Civil War, freedmen's education, inauguration of Louisiana common school system among the colored people, the Freedmen's Bureau, mission schools, and the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute; establishing a normal school for Virginia women; Southern education; German instruction in American schools; first comprehensive child-study attempts; negro education, including in the cities, negro intellectual capacity, need for and objections to negro higher education, negroes in Northern colleges, colored professional men, and negroes of distinction in intellectual activity; early English writers on education; the Association of Catholic Colleges third annual conference; British and Irish education; the South's public school problem, including the effects of war and reconstruction, country schools, compulsory attendance, and supervision; temperance education; the relationship between the national government and higher education and research; the Carnegie Institution, with a list of Andrew Carnegie's principal educational benefactions in the U.S.; French education; higher commercial education; a list of U.S. education periodicals; directories of chief state school officers, city superintendents, presidents of colleges for men and coeducational colleges, women's college presidents, technology school presidents, and normal school principals. [For Volume 2, see ED620496.]

The Commissioner's introduction to Volume 1 includes state school system statistics. Chapter I addresses vacation schools, playgrounds, and settlements, with discussion of poor children in major cities, playground conditions, playground social conditions, play psychology, and settlement-movement history. Subsequent chapters cover laws concerning agricultural and mechanical land-grant colleges, British and Irish education, London school board education administration, and American universities. Chapter VI offers education articles by early English writers. Denver Superintendent of Schools Aaron Gove gives an overview of U.S. public school systems in Chapter VII. Subsequent chapters cover the Southern educational movement; common school establishment in West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia, and Delaware between 1863 and 1900; current teacher-certification status; secondary education, including its history and current issues; and French education. Consular reports in Chapter XIV concern the Hebrew school of agriculture in Germany, the German colonial school in Witzenhausen, Saxon commercial education progress, continental European commercial education, German industrial and trade schools, school savings banks, technical education's influence, Quebec agriculture schools, education and crime elimination, European industrial education, the Moseley Industrial Commission inquiry, Japan's prison population, public school in the German Empire and in Prussia, German girls' commercial education, Liberia's education system, German industrial supplementary schools, women's admission to a German university, medical supervision of Berlin and Paris schools, and Russian schools. Subsequent chapters cover a list of foreign institutions of higher education; kindergarten; physical training; public, society, and school libraries; U.S. manual, industrial, and technical training; U.S. school and college coeducation; U.S. Catholic schools; state normal schools; the Bureau of Education's exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition; a list of education periodicals; and a directory of chief state school officers, city superintendents, presidents of men's and coeducational liberal arts colleges, women's college presidents, technology school presidents, and principals of public and private normal schools. [For Volume 2, see ED619961.]