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Union Calendar No. 50 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 362 
[Report No. 110–85] 
To authorize science scholarships for educating mathematics and science 
teachers, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 10, 2007 
Mr. GORDON of Tennessee (for himself and Mr. HALL of Texas) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science and 
Technology 
APRIL 16, 2007 
Additional sponsors: Mr. LIPINSKI, Mr. BAIRD, Ms. SLAUGHTER, Mr. HONDA, 
Mr. CLEAVER, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Ms. HIRONO, Ms. MCCOLLUM of Min-
nesota, Mr. DAVIS of Alabama, Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, Mr. 
WEXLER, Ms. GIFFORDS, Ms. MATSUI, Mr. MCNERNEY, Mr. COSTELLO, 
Mr. HINOJOSA, Mr. MOORE
of Kansas, Mr. ABERCROMBIE, Mr. 
LAMPSON, Mr. EHLERS, Ms. HOOLEY, Mr. WU, Mr. ROSS, Mr. 
CARNAHAN, Ms. HERSETH SANDLIN, Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of 
Texas, Ms. WOOLSEY, Mr. UDALL of Colorado, Mr. BARTLETT of Mary-
land, Mr. SHAYS, and Mr. CHANDLER 
APRIL 16, 2007 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 
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[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on January 10, 2007] 
A BILL 
To authorize science scholarships for educating mathematics 
and science teachers, 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. 
Sec. 2. Findings. 
Sec. 3. Definitions. 
TITLE I—SCIENCE SCHOLARSHIPS 
Sec. 101. Short title. 
Sec. 102. Findings. 
Sec. 103. Policy objective. 
Sec. 104. Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program. 
TITLE II—MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE EDUCATION IMPROVEMENT 
Sec. 201. Mathematics and science education partnerships amendments. 
Sec. 202. Teacher institutes. 
Sec. 203. Graduate degree program. 
Sec. 204. Curricular materials. 
Sec. 205. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion 
Program. 
Sec. 206. High-need local educational agency definition. 
Sec. 207. Teacher leaders. 
Sec. 208. Laboratory science pilot program. 
Sec. 209. Study on laboratory equipment donations for schools. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The National Science Foundation has made 
significant and valuable contributions to the improve-
ment of K–12 and undergraduate science, technology, 
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engineering, and mathematics education throughout 
its 56 year history. 
(2) Under section 3 of the National Science 
Foundation Act of 1950 (42 U.S.C. 1862), the Na-
tional Science Foundation is explicitly required to 
strengthen science, mathematics, and engineering re-
search potential and education programs at all levels. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) The term ‘‘cost of attendance’’ has the mean-
ing given that term in section 472 of the Higher Edu-
cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087ll). 
(2) The term ‘‘Director’’ means the Director of 
the National Science Foundation. 
(3) The term ‘‘institution of higher education’’ 
has the meaning given that term in section 101(a) of 
the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1001(a)). 
(4) The term ‘‘mathematics and science teacher’’ 
means a mathematics, science, or technology teacher 
at the elementary school or secondary school level. 
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TITLE I—SCIENCE 
SCHOLARSHIPS 
SEC. 101. SHORT TITLE. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘10,000 Teachers, 10 
Million Minds Science and Math Scholarship Act’’. 
SEC. 102. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The prosperity the United States enjoys 
today is due in no small part to investments the Na-
tion has made in research and development over the 
past 50 years. 
(2) Corporate, government, and national sci-
entific and technical leaders have raised concerns that 
current trends affecting the science and technology en-
terprise of the Nation could result in erosion of this 
past success and jeopardize future prosperity. 
(3) The National Academy of Sciences, the Na-
tional Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of 
Medicine were tasked in a congressional request to 
recommend actions that the Federal Government 
could take to enhance the science and technology en-
terprise so that the United States can successfully 
compete, prosper, and be secure in the global commu-
nity of the 21st century. 
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(4) The Academies’ highest priority recommenda-
tion in its report, ‘‘Rising Above the Gathering 
Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a 
Brighter Economic Future’’, is to improve K–12 
mathematics and science education, and the Acad-
emies’ first recommended action item is to institute a 
major scholarship program to recruit and educate an-
nually 10,000 mathematics and science teachers. 
SEC. 103. POLICY OBJECTIVE. 
In carrying out the program under section 104, the 
National Science Foundation shall seek to increase by up 
to 10,000 per year the number of elementary and secondary 
mathematics and science teachers in the Nation’s schools 
having both exemplary subject knowledge and pedagogical 
skills. 
SEC. 104. ROBERT NOYCE TEACHER SCHOLARSHIP PRO-
GRAM. 
(a) PROGRAM AMENDMENTS.—Section 10 of the Na-
tional Science Foundation Authorization Act of 2002 (42 
U.S.C. 1862n–1) is amended— 
(1) by inserting ‘‘TEACHER’’ after ‘‘NOYCE’’ in 
the section heading; 
(2) in subsection (a)(1)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘to provide scholarships, sti-
pends, and programming designed’’; 
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(B) by inserting ‘‘and to provide scholar-
ships and stipends to students participating in 
the program’’ after ‘‘science teachers’’; and 
(C) by inserting ‘‘Teacher’’ after ‘‘Noyce’’; 
(3) in subsection (a)(3)(A)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘encourage top college jun-
iors and seniors’’ and inserting ‘‘recruit and 
prepare undergraduate students’’; and 
(B) by inserting ‘‘qualified as’’ after ‘‘to be-
come’’; 
(4) in subsection (a)(3)(A)(ii)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘programs to help scholar-
ship recipients’’ and inserting ‘‘academic courses 
and early field teaching experiences designed to 
prepare students participating in the program’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘programs that will result 
in’’ and inserting ‘‘such preparation as is nec-
essary to meet requirements for’’; and 
(C) by striking ‘‘licensing; and’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘licensing;’’; 
(5) in subsection (a)(3)(A)(iii)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘scholarship recipients’’ and 
inserting ‘‘students participating in the pro-
gram’’; 
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(B) by striking ‘‘enable the recipients’’ and 
inserting ‘‘enable the students’’; and 
(C) by striking ‘‘; or’’ and inserting ‘‘; 
and’’; 
(6) in subsection (a)(3)(A) by inserting at the 
end the following new clause: 
‘‘(iv) providing summer internships for 
freshman students participating in the pro-
gram; or’’; 
(7) in subsection (a)(3)(B)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘encourage’’ and inserting 
‘‘recruit and prepare’’; and 
(B) by inserting ‘‘qualified as’’ after ‘‘to be-
come’’; 
(8) by amending clause (ii) of subsection 
(a)(3)(B) to read as follows: 
‘‘(ii) offering academic courses and 
field teaching experiences designed to pre-
pare stipend recipients to teach in elemen-
tary schools and secondary schools, includ-
ing such preparation as is necessary to meet 
requirements for teacher certification or li-
censing; and’’; 
(9) in subsection (a) by inserting at the end the 
following new paragraph: 
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of), which may partner with education faculty. Appli-
cations for awards under subparagraph (A)(ii) shall 
be submitted to the Director at such time, in such 
manner, and containing such information as the Di-
rector may require. At a minimum, the application 
shall include— 
‘‘(i) a description of the activities to be car-
ried out by the Center; 
‘‘(ii) a plan for disseminating programs re-
lated to the activities carried out by the Center 
to faculty at the grantee institution and at other 
institutions; 
‘‘(iii) an estimate of the number of faculty, 
graduate students (if any), and undergraduate 
students who will be affected by the activities 
carried out by the Center; and 
‘‘(iv) a plan for assessing the effectiveness of 
the Center at accomplishing the goals described 
in subparagraph (A)(ii). 
‘‘(G) In evaluating the applications submitted 
under subparagraph (F), the Director shall consider, 
at a minimum— 
‘‘(i) the ability of the applicant to effec-
tively carry out the proposed activities, includ-
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