•HRES 699 EH 
Whereas the high interest of students in becoming entre-
preneurs and the critical role entrepreneurs have played 
in advancing the national economy make it vital for the 
Nation’s schools to provide students with training in the 
skills which will enable them to become the entrepreneurs 
of the future; 
Whereas the Partnership For 21st Century Skills identified 
financial, economic, business literacy, and entrepreneur-
ship skills as the types of skills students must have in 
order to enhance workplace productivity and career op-
tions; 
Whereas exposing students to the types of market-driven 
problems faced by entrepreneurs is an excellent example 
of how educators can use problem-based learning strate-
gies to prepare students for the situations they will en-
counter in the future, an approach recommended by the 
National Council on Competitiveness in its 2004 report 
entitled ‘‘ Innovate America’’; 
Whereas entrepreneurship education provides exactly the type 
of academic engagement of all students promoted by the 
National High School Alliance, based on relevant real-
world contexts that build on community assets, allow par-
ticipation in workplace-based learning, and include per-
formance-based assessments; 
Whereas entrepreneurship education has been shown to be es-
pecially effective in closing the achievement gap between 
minority students and others in public schools; 
Whereas students who participate in entrepreneurship edu-
cation programs have better attendance records, perform 
better on core subjects, and have lower dropout rates 
than those who do not participate in these programs;
•HRES 699 EH 
Whereas successful programs in entrepreneurship education 
have been established in many States, including the pub-
lic-private partnership program in North Carolina by the 
Center for 21st Century Skills, which helps students ac-
quire the knowledge and skills needed for success in the 
global economy and which has been touted as a national 
model for education in the 21st century; 
Whereas the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation has as-
sembled a multidisciplinary panel of distinguished schol-
ars who will evaluate relevant research and review what 
has been learned in the many existing programs on entre-
preneurship under way throughout the United States in 
order to provide recommendations for a comprehensive 
approach to teaching entrepreneurship in colleges and 
universities; 
Whereas the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation has con-
tributed significant time and resources to create the 
Kauffman Campuses program to make entrepreneurship 
education a common and accessible campus-wide oppor-
tunity that is an integral part of the college experience; 
Whereas the Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education has 
developed and nurtured a lifelong entrepreneurship edu-
cation model to encourage students’ awareness of entre-
preneurship as a career option throughout their years of 
school and to assist entrepreneurs as they implement 
their entrepreneurial ideas; 
Whereas the Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education has 
lead the initiative to broadly define the field of entrepre-
neurship through 403 performance indicators to guide 
the delivery of entrepreneurship education in support of 
the lifelong learning model;
•HRES 699 EH 
Whereas, through the initiative to observe annually National 
Entrepreneurship Week, the Ewing Marion Kauffman 
Foundation, the Consortium for Entrepreneurship Edu-
cation, and partner organizations promote awareness of 
the contributions of entrepreneurs as innovators, positive 
forces in the economy, and important resources for im-
proving communities as places to live and work; and 
Whereas National Entrepreneurship Week will focus on the 
innovative ways in which entrepreneurship education can 
bring together the core academic, technical, and problem 
solving skills essential for future entrepreneurs and suc-
cessful workers in future workplaces: Now, therefore, be 
it
Resolved, That the House of Representatives—
(1) encourages the implementation of entrepreneur-
ship education throughout the United States; 
(2) supports the goals and ideals of National Entre-
preneurship Week so that the people of the United 
States are reminded of the contributions of entre-
preneurs and so that educators are encouraged to reflect 
on how entrepreneurship education can improve the per-
formance of their students; and 
(3) requests that the President issue a proclamation 
calling on the Federal Government, State and Local gov-
ernments, schools, nonprofit organization, and others to 
observe National Entrepreneurship Week annually with