This document is a bound copy of reports of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, including the Office of Education, for 1957-1959. The Office of Education presents data and discussion on U.S. education across sectors and jurisdictions, as well as the work of the Office of Education. Among additional topics covered are record elementary and secondary school enrollment, teacher shortages, and crowded and inadequate school plants; concern for basic learning in the sciences, mathematics, English, foreign languages, and history; high-school dropouts; education legislation and enacted laws; state and local school administration; school finance; elementary education; adult education; exceptional children; audiovisual education; higher education, including college retention; research; libraries; federally impacted schools; improvement of practical nurse training, and other vocational education programs; engineering education; college costs and institutional aid; international education; library services; the White House Conference on Education; gifted education; vocational rehabilitation; national defense fellowships; and equalization.