This document contains the first twenty chapters of the Biennial Survey of Education document, covering the years 1926-1928. The following chapters are included in this document: (1) Higher education (Arthur J. Klein); (2) Medical education (N. P. Colwell); (3) Legal education (Alfred Z. Reed); (4) Significant movements in city school systems (W. S. Deffenbaugh); (5) Rural Education (Katherine M. Cook); (6) Secondary education (Carl A. Jessen); (7) School health work (James Frederick Rogers); (8) Industrial education (Maris M. Proffitt) (9) Trends in home economics education (Emeline S. Whitcomb); (10) Commercial education (J. O. Malott); (11) Adult education activities (L. R. Alderman) (12) Some phases of nursery-kindergarten-primary education (Mary Dabney Davis); (13) Teacher training (Benjamin W. Frazier); (14) Parent education (Ellen C. Lombard); (15) Educational boards foundations (Henry R. Evans); (16) Work of the Bureau of Education for the natives of Alaska (William Hamilton) (17) Changing conceptions of the school-building problem (Alice Barrows); (18) Review of educational legislation (Ward W. Keesecker); (19) Statistical summary of education, 1927-28 (Frank M. Phillips); and (20) Statistics of State school systems, 1927-28. [Due to its size, this bulletin has been processed as three separate parts. The first part, ED542087, includes Chapter I through Chapter XX. The second part, ED542088, includes Chapter XXI through Chapter XXII. The third part, ED542089, includes Chapter XXIII through the Index. Individual chapters contain tables and figures. The table of contents has been repeated in the second and third parts. Best copy available has been provided.].