107TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 5598
AN ACT
To provide for improvement of Federal education
research, statistics, evaluation, information, and
dissemination, and for other purposes.
107TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 5598
AN ACT
To provide for improvement of Federal education research,
statistics, evaluation, information, and dissemination,
and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. TABLE OF CONTENTS.
The table of contents for this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Table of contents.
TITLE I—EDUCATION SCIENCES REFORM
Sec. 101. Short title.
Sec. 102. Definitions.
PART A—THE INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION SCIENCES
Sec. 111. Establishment.
Sec. 112. Functions.
Sec. 113. Delegation.
Sec. 114. Office of the Director.
Sec. 115. Priorities.
Sec. 116. National Board for Education Sciences.
Sec. 117. Commissioners of the National Education Centers.
Sec. 118. Agreements.
Sec. 119. Biennial report.
Sec. 120. Competitive awards.
PART B—NATIONAL CENTER FOR EDUCATION RESEARCH
Sec. 131. Establishment.
Sec. 132. Commissioner for Education Research.
Sec. 133. Duties.
Sec. 134. Standards for conduct and evaluation of research.
PART C—NATIONAL CENTER FOR EDUCATION STATISTICS
Sec. 151. Establishment.
Sec. 152. Commissioner for Education Statistics.
Sec. 153. Duties.
Sec. 154. Performance of duties.
Sec. 155. Reports.
Sec. 156. Dissemination.
Sec. 157. Cooperative education statistics systems.
Sec. 158. State defined.
PART D—NATIONAL CENTER FOR EDUCATION EVALUATION AND REGIONAL
ASSISTANCE
Sec. 171. Establishment.
Sec. 172. Commissioner for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance.
Sec. 173. Evaluations.
Sec. 174. Regional educational laboratories for research, development, dissemi-
nation, and technical assistance.
PART E—GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 181. Interagency data sources and formats.
Sec. 182. Prohibitions.
Sec. 183. Confidentiality.
Sec. 184. Availability of data.
Sec. 185. Performance management.
Sec. 186. Authority to publish.
Sec. 187. Vacancies.
Sec. 188. Scientific or technical employees.
Sec. 189. Fellowships.
Sec. 190. Voluntary service.
Sec. 191. Rulemaking.
Sec. 192. Copyright.
Sec. 193. Removal.
Sec. 194. Authorization of appropriations.
TITLE II—EDUCATIONAL TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
Sec. 201. Short title.
Sec. 202. Definitions.
Sec. 203. Comprehensive centers.
Sec. 204. Evaluations.
Sec. 205. Existing technical assistance providers.
Sec. 206. Regional advisory committees.
Sec. 207. Priorities.
Sec. 208. Grant program for statewide, longitudinal data systems.
Sec. 209. Authorization of appropriations.
TITLE III—NATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS
Sec. 301. Short title.
Sec. 302. Definitions.
Sec. 303. Authorization of appropriations.
TITLE IV—AMENDATORY PROVISIONS
Sec. 401. Redesignations.
Sec. 402. Amendments to Department of Education Organization Act.
Sec. 403. Repeals.
Sec. 404. Conforming and technical amendments.
Sec. 405. Orderly transition.
Sec. 406. Impact aid.
TITLE I—EDUCATION SCIENCES
REFORM
SEC. 101. SHORT TITLE.
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Education Sciences
Reform Act of 2002’’.
SEC. 102. DEFINITIONS.
In this title:
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The terms ‘‘elementary
school’’, ‘‘secondary school’’, ‘‘local educational agen-
cy’’, and ‘‘State educational agency’’ have the mean-
ings given those terms in section 9101 of the Ele-
mentary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20
U.S.C. 7801) and the terms ‘‘freely associated
states’’ and ‘‘outlying area’’ have the meanings given
those terms in section 1121(c) of such Act (20
U.S.C. 6331(c)).
(2) APPLIED
RESEARCH.—The term ‘‘applied
research’’ means research—
(A) to gain knowledge or understanding
necessary for determining the means by which
a recognized and specific need may be met; and
(B) that is specifically directed to the ad-
vancement of practice in the field of education.
(3) BASIC
RESEARCH.—The term ‘‘basic re-
search’’ means research—
(A) to gain fundamental knowledge or un-
derstanding of phenomena and observable facts,
without specific application toward processes or
products; and
(B) for the advancement of knowledge in
the field of education.
(4) BOARD.—The term ‘‘Board’’ means the Na-
tional Board for Education Sciences established
under section 116.
(5) BUREAU.—The term ‘‘Bureau’’ means the
Bureau of Indian Affairs.
(6) 
COMPREHENSIVE
CENTER.—The 
term
‘‘comprehensive center’’ means an entity established
under section 203 of the Educational Technical As-
sistance Act of 2002.
(7) DEPARTMENT.—The term ‘‘Department’’
means the Department of Education.
(8) DEVELOPMENT.—The term ‘‘development’’
means the systematic use of knowledge or under-
standing gained from the findings of scientifically
valid research and the shaping of that knowledge or
understanding into products or processes that can be
applied and evaluated and may prove useful in areas
such as the preparation of materials and new meth-
ods of instruction and practices in teaching, that
lead to the improvement of the academic skills of
students, and that are replicable in different edu-
cational settings.
(9) DIRECTOR.—The term ‘‘Director’’ means
the Director of the Institute of Education Sciences.
(10) DISSEMINATION.—The term ‘‘dissemina-
tion’’ means the communication and transfer of the
results of scientifically valid research, statistics, and
evaluations, in forms that are understandable, easily