Title 20 — Education
Part B · Chapter 76 — Education Research, Statistics, Evaluation, Information, and Dissemination
§ 9531. Establishment
Statutory text
Establishment
There is established in the Institute a National Center for Education Research (in this part referred to as the “Research Center”).
Mission
The mission of the Research Center is—
to sponsor sustained research that will lead to the accumulation of knowledge and understanding of education, to—
ensure that all children have access to a high-quality education;
improve student academic achievement, including through the use of educational technology;
close the achievement gap between high-performing and low-performing students through the improvement of teaching and learning of reading, writing, mathematics, science, and other academic subjects; and
improve access to, and opportunity for, postsecondary education;
to support the synthesis and, as appropriate, the integration of education research;
to promote quality and integrity through the use of accepted practices of scientific inquiry to obtain knowledge and understanding of the validity of education theories, practices, or conditions; and
to promote scientifically valid research findings that can provide the basis for improving academic instruction and lifelong learning.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002
Pub. L. 107–279 title I § 131 · 116 Stat. 1940
Enacted · 20 U.S.C. § 9531
(Pub. L. 107–279, title I, § 131, Nov. 5, 2002, 116 Stat. 1954.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 107–279, title I, § 131, Nov. 5, 2002, 116 Stat. 1954.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 131. ESTABLISHMENT. (a) Establishment.— There is established in the Institute a National Center for Education Research (in this part referred to as the “Research Center”). (b) Mission.— The mission of the Research Center is— (1) to sponsor sustained research that will lead to the accumulation of knowledge and understanding of education, to— (A) ensure that all children have access to a high-quality education; (B) improve student academic achievement, including through the use of educational technology; (C) close the achievement gap between high-performing and low-performing students through the improvement of teaching and learning of reading, writing, mathematics, science, and other academic subjects; and (D) improve access to, and opportunity for, postsecondary education; (2) to support the synthesis and, as appropriate, the integration of education research; (3) to promote quality and integrity through the use of accepted practices of scientific inquiry to obtain knowledge and understanding of the validity of education theories, practices, or conditions; and (4) to promote scientifically valid research findings that can provide the basis for improving academic instruction and lifelong learning.
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