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This information collection is being 

submitted under the Streamlined 

Clearance Process for Discretionary 

Grant Information Collections (1894– 

0001). Therefore, the 30-day public 

comment period notice will be the only 

public comment notice published for 

this information collection. 

Requests for copies of the information 

collection submission for OMB review 

may be accessed from http:// 

edicsweb.ed.gov, by selecting the 

‘‘Browse Pending Collections’’ link and 

by clicking on link number 4245. When 

you access the information collection, 

click on ‘‘Download Attachments ’’ to 

view. Written requests for information 

should be addressed to U.S. Department 

of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, 

SW., LBJ, Washington, DC 20202–4537. 

Requests may also be electronically 

mailed to the Internet address 

ICDocketMgr@ed.gov or faxed to 202– 

401–0920. Please specify the complete 

title of the information collection when 

making your request. 

Comments regarding burden and/or 

the collection activity requirements 

should be electronically mailed to 

ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. Individuals who 

use a telecommunications device for the 

deaf (TDD) may call the Federal 

Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1– 

800–877–8339. 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Department of Education. 

SUMMARY: The Acting Director, 

Information Collection Clearance 

Division, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of 

Management invites comments on the 

submission for OMB review as required 

by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before May 10, 

2010. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be addressed to the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Attention: Education Desk Officer, 

Office of Management and Budget, 725 

17th Street, NW., Room 10222, New 

Executive Office Building, Washington, 

DC 20503, be faxed to (202) 395–5806 or 

e-mailed to 

oira_submission@omb.eop.gov with a 

cc: to ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

3506 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) requires 

that the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) provide interested 

Federal agencies and the public an early 

opportunity to comment on information 

collection requests. OMB may amend or 

waive the requirement for public 

consultation to the extent that public 

participation in the approval process 

would defeat the purpose of the 

information collection, violate State or 

Federal law, or substantially interfere 

with any agency’s ability to perform its 

statutory obligations. The Acting 

Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Regulatory 

Information Management Services, 

Office of Management, publishes that 

notice containing proposed information 

collection requests prior to submission 

of these requests to OMB. Each 

proposed information collection, 

grouped by office, contains the 

following: (1) Type of review requested, 

e.g., new, revision, extension, existing 

or reinstatement; (2) Title; (3) Summary 

of the collection; (4) Description of the 

need for, and proposed use of, the 

information; (5) Respondents and 

frequency of collection; and (6) 

Reporting and/or Recordkeeping 

burden. OMB invites public comment. 

Dated: April 5, 2010. 

James Hyler, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of Management. 

Institute of Education Sciences 

Type of Review: Revision. 

Title: NAEP 2011 Wave I (Reading, 

Math, Science, Economics). 

Frequency: Once. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

household. 

Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour 

Burden: 

Responses: 976,165. 

Burden Hours: 280,532. 

Abstract: The National Assessment of 

Educational Progress (NAEP) is a 

federally authorized survey of student 

achievement at grades 4, 8, and 12 in 

various subject areas, such as 

mathematics, reading, writing, science, 

U.S. history, civics, geography, 

economics, and the arts. In the current 

legislation that reauthorized NAEP (The 

No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (Pub. 

L. 107–110)), Congress mandated again 

the collection of national education 

survey data through a national 

assessment program. The 2011 Wave 1 

submittal contains the following 2011 

assessments: the grades 4, 8, and 12 core 

(demographic) and subject-specific 

(reading (4, 8), mathematics (4, 8), 

science (8), and economics (12)) student 

background questionnaires; grades 4 

and 8 teacher questionnaires (core, 

reading, mathematics, and science 

components); and grades 4 and 8 school 

questionnaires (core, reading, 

mathematics, science, and charter 

school components). 

Requests for copies of the information 

collection submission for OMB review 

may be accessed from http:// 

edicsweb.ed.gov, by selecting the 

‘‘Browse Pending Collections’’ link and 

by clicking on link number 4273. When 

you access the information collection, 

click on ‘‘Download Attachments ’’ to 

view. Written requests for information 

should be addressed to U.S. Department 

of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, 

SW., LBJ, Washington, DC 20202–4537. 

Requests may also be electronically 

mailed to the Internet address 

ICDocketMgr@ed.gov or faxed to 202– 

401–0920. Please specify the complete 

title of the information collection when 

making your request. 

Comments regarding burden and/or 

the collection activity requirements 

should be directed to MULLAN at 202– 

401–0563. Individuals who use a 

telecommunications device for the deaf 

(TDD) may call the Federal Information 

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877– 

8339. 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[CFDA Number 84.295A] 

Ready-to-Learn Television Program 

AGENCY: Office of Innovation and 

Improvement, Department of Education. 

ACTION: Notice inviting applications for 

new awards for fiscal year (FY) 2010; 

correction. 

SUMMARY: On March 22, 2010, we 

published in the Federal Register (75 

FR 13515) a notice inviting applications 

for new awards for FY 2010 for the 

Ready-to-Learn Television Program. 

There is an error in one of the dates in 

that notice. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice corrects the meeting date for 

prospective applicants as follows: 

Correction 

On page 13518, in the first column, 

under Notice of Intent to Apply, second 

paragraph, line six, replace the date 

‘‘April 8, 2010’’ with the date ‘‘April 15, 

2010.’’ 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The 

Ready-to-Learn Television Program, 

U.S. Department of Education, 400 


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1By requiring that member States fully 

implement the summative assessment components 

of the assessment system no later than the 2014– 

2015 school year, we believe that we are providing 

an eligible applicant receiving a Comprehensive 

Assessment Systems grant with an appropriate 

amount of time to design and develop summative 

assessments that meet the Absolute Priority and 

other requirements for this grant category. 

Maryland Avenue, SW., room 4W414, 

Washington, DC 20202 or by e-mail: 

readytolearn@ed.gov. 

If you use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf, call the Federal 

Relay Service, toll free, at 1–800–877– 

8339. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

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all other documents of this Department 

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text or Adobe Portable Document 

Format (PDF) on the Internet at the 

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fedregister. To use PDF you must have 

Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is 

available free at this site. 

Note: The official version of this document 

is the document published in the Federal 

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edition of the Federal Register and the Code 

of Federal Regulations is available on GPO 

Access at: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/ 

index.html. 

Dated: April 5, 2010. 

James H. Shelton, III, 

Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and 

Improvement. 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Overview Information; Race to the Top 

Fund Assessment Program; Notice 

Inviting Applications for New Awards 

for Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 

Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance (CFDA) Numbers: 84.395B 

(Comprehensive Assessment Systems 

grants) and 84.395C (High School 

Course Assessment Programs grants). 

Dates: 

Applications Available: April 9, 2010. 

Deadline for Notice of Intent To 

Apply: April 29, 2010. 

Date of Technical Assistance Meeting 

for Prospective Applicants: April 22, 

2010. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: June 23, 2010. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: August 23, 2010. 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose and Overview of Program: 

Authorized under the American 

Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 

(ARRA), the Race to the Top Fund 

Assessment Program provides funding 

to consortia of States to develop 

assessments that are valid, support and 

inform instruction, provide accurate 

information about what students know 

and can do, and measure student 

achievement against standards designed 

to ensure that all students gain the 

knowledge and skills needed to succeed 

in college and the workplace. These 

assessments are intended to play a 

critical role in educational systems; 

provide administrators, educators, 

parents, and students with the data and 

information needed to continuously 

improve teaching and learning; and help 

meet the President’s goal of restoring, by 

2020, the nation’s position as the world 

leader in college graduates. 

Through the Race to the Top Fund 

Assessment Program, the Department 

expects to award two categories of 

grants: (A) Comprehensive Assessment 

Systems grants, and (B) High School 

Course Assessment Programs grants. In 

this notice, we are establishing 

priorities, requirements, definitions, and 

selection criteria for each grant category. 

An eligible applicant (i.e., a consortium 

of States) may apply for grants in both 

categories, provided it meets the 

eligibility requirements for each 

category. The Department will score and 

rank applications separately in each 

grant category. Following is an overview 

of the two grant categories: 

(A) Comprehensive Assessment 

Systems grants. Over the past decade, 

State assessment results have brought 

much-needed visibility to disparities in 

achievement among different groups of 

students and helped meet increasing 

demands for data that can be used to 

improve teaching and learning. To fully 

meet the dual needs for accountability 

and instructional improvement, 

however, States need assessment 

systems that are based on standards 

designed to prepare students for college 

and the workplace, and that more 

validly measure student knowledge and 

skills against the full range of those 

standards and across the full 

performance continuum. Further, States 

need assessment systems that better 

reflect good instructional practices and 

support a culture of continuous 

improvement in education by providing 

information that can be used in a timely 

and meaningful manner to determine 

school and educator effectiveness, 

identify teacher and principal 

professional development and support 

needs, improve programs, and guide 

instruction. 

This grant category supports the 

development of such assessment 

systems by consortia of States. 

Comprehensive Assessment Systems 

grants provide funding for the 

development of new assessment systems 

that measure student knowledge and 

skills against a common set of collegeand career-ready standards (as defined 

in this notice) in mathematics and 

English language arts in a way that 

covers the full range of those standards, 

elicits complex student demonstrations 

or applications of knowledge and skills 

as appropriate, and provides an accurate 

measure of student achievement across 

the full performance continuum and an 

accurate measure of student growth over 

a full academic year or course. 

Assessment systems developed with 

Comprehensive Assessment Systems 

grants must include one or more 

summative assessment components in 

mathematics and in English language 

arts that are administered at least once 

during the academic year in grades 3 

through 8 and at least once in high 

school and that produce student 

achievement data and student growth 

data (both as defined in this notice) that 

can be used to determine whether 

individual students are college- and 

career-ready (as defined in this notice) 

or on track to being college- and careerready (as defined in this notice). In 

addition, assessment systems developed 

with Comprehensive Assessment 

Systems grants must assess all students, 

including English learners (as defined in 

this notice) and students with 

disabilities (as defined in this notice). 

Finally, assessment systems developed 

with Comprehensive Assessment 

Systems grants must produce data 

(including student achievement data 

and student growth data) that can be 

used to inform (a) determinations of 

school effectiveness; (b) determinations 

of individual principal and teacher 

effectiveness for purposes of evaluation; 

(c) determinations of principal and 

teacher professional development and 

support needs; and (d) teaching, 

learning, and program improvement. 

To be eligible for a Comprehensive 

Assessment Systems grant, an eligible 

applicant must include at least 15 

States, of which at least 5 States must 

be governing States (as defined in this 

notice). An eligible applicant receiving 

a Comprehensive Assessment Systems 

grant must ensure that the summative 

assessment components of the 

assessment system (in both mathematics 

and English language arts) will be fully 

implemented statewide in each State in 

the consortium no later than the 2014– 

2015 school year.1 It is the expectation 

of the Department that States that adopt 

assessment systems developed with 


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