II

106TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION S. 987

To expand the activities of the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse to include

collecting and reviewing instructional and professional development materials and programs for language arts and social studies, and to require

the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse to collect and analyze the materials and programs.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

MAY 6, 1999

Mr. DEWINE introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred

to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

A BILL

To expand the activities of the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse to include collecting and reviewing instructional

and professional development materials and programs for

language arts and social studies, and to require the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse to collect and analyze

the materials and programs.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; FINDINGS; PURPOSE.

4 (a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the

5 ‘‘Eisenhower National Clearinghouse Improvement Act’’.
2

•S 987 IS

1 (b) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following find2 ings:

3 (1) The most important education tool in any

4 classroom is a qualified, highly trained teacher.

5 (2) The collection and effective dissemination of

6 best practices in education is a primary responsi7 bility of the Federal Government.

8 (3) The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse is

9 the Nation’s repository of kindergarten through

10 grade 12 instructional materials in mathematics and

11 science education, and disseminates information

12 about these materials in a user-friendly format for

13 educators.

14 (4) The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse col15 laborates with the national network of Eisenhower

16 Regional Mathematics and Science Education Con17 sortia and the collaboration includes twelve dem18 onstration sites throughout the Nation.

19 (5) Since 1992, the Eisenhower National Clear20 inghouse has distributed 3,714,807 CD–ROM’s and

21 print publications. Products are distributed to every

22 school building in the Nation, colleges of education,

23 and various education groups and professional orga24 nizations. The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse

25 has received over 40,000,000 hits to their web site
3

•S 987 IS

1 since the creation of the web site in 1994. In addi2 tion, the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse has es3 tablished over 100 access centers across the Nation

4 to expand direct service to more teachers.

5 (c) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this Act is—

6 (1) to expand the activities of the Eisenhower

7 National Clearinghouse to include collecting and re8 viewing instructional and professional development

9 materials and programs for language arts and social

10 studies; and

11 (2) to require the Eisenhower National Clear12 inghouse to collect and analyze the materials and

13 programs.

14 SEC. 2. EXPANDED ACTIVITIES.

15 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 2102 of the Elementary

16 and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C.

17 6622(b)) is amended—

18 (1) in subsection (a)(2), by striking ‘‘for Mathe19 matics and Science’’;

20 (2) in subsection (b)—

21 (A) in paragraph (3)—

22 (i) in subparagraph (A), by striking

23 ‘‘and science’’ each place the term appears

24 and inserting ‘‘, science, language arts,

25 and social studies’’;
4

•S 987 IS

1 (ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking

2 ‘‘and science’’ and inserting ‘‘, science, lan3 guage arts, and social studies’’;

4 (iii) in subparagraph (D), by striking

5 ‘‘and science’’ and inserting ‘‘, science, lan6 guage arts, and social studies’’; and

7 (iv) by amending subparagraph (F) to

8 read as follows:

9 ‘‘(F) gather (in consultation with the De10 partment, national teacher associations, profes11 sional associations, and other reviewers and de12 velopers of education materials and programs)

13 qualitative and evaluative materials and pro14 grams for the Clearinghouse, review the evalua15 tion of the materials and programs, rank the ef16 fectiveness of the materials and programs on

17 the basis of the evaluations, and distribute the

18 results of the reviews to teachers in an easily

19 accessible manner, except that nothing in this

20 subparagraph shall be construed to permit the

21 Clearinghouse to directly conduct an evaluation

22 of the materials or programs.’’;

23 (B) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘or

24 science’’ and inserting ‘‘, science, language arts,

25 or social studies’’; and
5

•S 987 IS

1 (C) by adding at the end the following:

2 ‘‘(9) EFFECTIVE USE OF TECHNOLOGY.—In re3 viewing evaluations of materials and programs under

4 this subsection the Clearinghouse shall give par5 ticular attention to the effective use of education

6 technology in mathematics, science, language arts,

7 and social studies.’’.

8 (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 13302(10)

9 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965

10 (20 U.S.C. 8672(10)) is amended by striking ‘‘Mathe11 matics and Science’’.

Æ