The biennial survey presents statistics and discussion for 1953-54 on broad-range education, state school systems, city school systems, and higher education, for 1952-53 on special education for exceptional children, and for 1953-54 for public school libraries. Topics include numbers of educational and administrative units, number of schools, enrollment, retention, teachers, income and expenditures, federal funds, libraries, high school graduates, consolidation and transportation, federally funded vocational education, per-pupil city school expenditures, college degrees, Negro education, veterans' training, and federal Office of Education activities in international education relations.