[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 987 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 987

 To expand the activities of the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse to 
    include collecting and reviewing instructional and professional 
    development materials and programs for language arts and social 
   studies, and to require the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse to 
            collect and analyze the materials and programs.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 6, 1999

  Mr. DeWine introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
 To expand the activities of the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse to 
    include collecting and reviewing instructional and professional 
    development materials and programs for language arts and social 
   studies, and to require the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse to 
            collect and analyze the materials and programs.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; FINDINGS; PURPOSE.

    (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Eisenhower 
National Clearinghouse Improvement Act''.
    (b) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) The most important education tool in any classroom is a 
        qualified, highly trained teacher.
            (2) The collection and effective dissemination of best 
        practices in education is a primary responsibility of the 
        Federal Government.
            (3) The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse is the Nation's 
        repository of kindergarten through grade 12 instructional 
        materials in mathematics and science education, and 
        disseminates information about these materials in a user-
        friendly format for educators.
            (4) The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse collaborates with 
        the national network of Eisenhower Regional Mathematics and 
        Science Education Consortia and the collaboration includes 
        twelve demonstration sites throughout the Nation.
            (5) Since 1992, the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse has 
        distributed 3,714,807 CD-ROM's and print publications. Products 
        are distributed to every school building in the Nation, 
        colleges of education, and various education groups and 
        professional organizations. The Eisenhower National 
        Clearinghouse has received over 40,000,000 hits to their web 
        site since the creation of the web site in 1994. In addition, 
        the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse has established over 100 
        access centers across the Nation to expand direct service to 
        more teachers.
    (c) Purpose.--The purpose of this Act is--
            (1) to expand the activities of the Eisenhower National 
        Clearinghouse to include collecting and reviewing instructional 
        and professional development materials and programs for 
        language arts and social studies; and
            (2) to require the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse to 
        collect and analyze the materials and programs.

SEC. 2. EXPANDED ACTIVITIES.

    (a) In General.--Section 2102 of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6622(b)) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(2), by striking ``for Mathematics and 
        Science'';
            (2) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) in paragraph (3)--
                            (i) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``and 
                        science'' each place the term appears and 
                        inserting ``, science, language arts, and 
                        social studies'';
                            (ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``and 
                        science'' and inserting ``, science, language 
                        arts, and social studies'';
                            (iii) in subparagraph (D), by striking 
                        ``and science'' and inserting ``, science, 
                        language arts, and social studies''; and
                            (iv) by amending subparagraph (F) to read 
                        as follows:
                    ``(F) gather (in consultation with the Department, 
                national teacher associations, professional 
                associations, and other reviewers and developers of 
                education materials and programs) qualitative and 
                evaluative materials and programs for the 
                Clearinghouse, review the evaluation of the materials 
                and programs, rank the effectiveness of the materials 
                and programs on the basis of the evaluations, and 
                distribute the results of the reviews to teachers in an 
                easily accessible manner, except that nothing in this 
                subparagraph shall be construed to permit the 
                Clearinghouse to directly conduct an evaluation of the 
                materials or programs.'';
                    (B) in paragraph (4), by striking ``or science'' 
                and inserting ``, science, language arts, or social 
                studies''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(9) Effective use of technology.--In reviewing 
        evaluations of materials and programs under this subsection the 
        Clearinghouse shall give particular attention to the effective 
        use of education technology in mathematics, science, language 
        arts, and social studies.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 13302(10) of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 8672(10)) is amended by 
striking ``Mathematics and Science''.
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