This is Volume 1 of the Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1895-96, containing Part I. The volume begins with the Commissioner of Education's Introduction and a section entitled, State Common School Systems. Part I includes the following chapters: (1) Laws Relating to City School Boards; (2) The English Education Bill of 1896; (3) Education in Great Britain and Ireland; (4) Education in Central Europe; (5) Music in German Schools; (6) The American Common School in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania During the First Half Century of the Republic; (7) The American Common School in the Southern States during the First Half Century of the Republic, 1790-1840; (8) Public, Society, and School Libraries; (9) Library Legislation in the United States; (10) Comparative Study of Popular Education among Civilized Nations: Administration of Popular Education; (11) Education in France; (12) Education in Mexico and Central America; (13) The Fifth International Prison Congress; (14) The Letters of Rabbi Akibah, or the Jewish Primer as it was Used in the Public Schools Two Thousand Years Ago; (15) Commercial Education in Europe, Particularly in Austria, France, and Germany; (16) Early Educational Life in Middle Georgia; (17) Horace Mann; (18) Correlation of Studies; and (19) Educational Directory. [For "Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1895-96. Volume 2. Containing Part II," see ED622095.]