United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office Health, Education, and Human Services Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2000-07-12 monographic deposited born digital 50 p. GA 1.13:HEHS-00-110 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-00-110 P0b002ee180376138 f:he00110 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-24 GAOREPORTS-HEHS-00-110 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-HEHS-00-110 HEHS-00-110 Interagency relations Educational standards Mathematics Education program evaluation Aid for education Physical sciences Dept. of Education Dwight D. Eisenhower Mathematics and Science Education Program Letter Report HEHS Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on math and science education, focusing on: (1) the key efforts undertaken by the Department of Education, the National Institutes of Health, and the nine federal agencies under the purview of the House Committee on Science that supported the development and dissemination of comprehensive kindergarten through 12th-grade mathematics and science curriculum materials and the characteristics of these efforts; (2) the extent to which federal agencies coordinated their efforts to develop and disseminate these materials; and (3) the extent to which agencies assessed the quality and use of these materials.<p/>GAO noted that: (1) agencies used a variety of approaches to develop, promote awareness of, and distribute mathematics and science materials for kindergarten through 12th grade; (2) of the 11 agencies GAO surveyed, nine identified 210 projects that were actively developing mathematics and science materials in fiscal year 1999; (3) Education and the National Science Foundation supported the development of two-thirds of these projects as part of their effort to improve the teaching and learning of math and science; (4) however, most other agencies GAO reviewed generally developed these materials as part of their goal to increase public awareness of a specific subject, rather than to improve math and science education; (5) overall, the materials incorporated the use of technology, such as computer software and the Internet, and projects tended to focus on science rather than math; (6) to promote and distribute these materials, agencies generally relied most heavily on resources that were available within the agency, such as agency-sponsored conferences and workshops and agency publication distribution centers; (7) in addition, agency officials reported that there is a trend toward making the materials available on-line through the Internet; (8) to some extent, agencies producing math and science materials coordinated their efforts within and across agencies and with state and local organizations; (9) some agencies coordinated efforts on an informal basis; (10) some agencies also made some effort to coordinate with state and local organizations in developing math and science education materials; (11) agencies generally relied on their own distribution mechanisms to disseminate information about materials rather than coordinating dissemination efforts with other agencies; (12) although the National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education (Eisenhower Clearinghouse) was established to serve as a central source of information about math and science materials, most agencies did not send the clearinghouse copies of all their math and science materials; (13) as a result, no single comprehensive resource for all federally sponsored materials is available to educators seeking to make informed decisions about these materials; and (14) information was available about the quality of some of the federally developed mathematics and science materials, but little information was available on the extent to which these materials were used in the classroom. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-00-110/html/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-00-110.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-00-110/pdf/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-00-110.pdf GAO/HEHS-00-110 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-00-110 Letter Report GAO/HEHS-00-110; Math and Science Education: Comprehensive Information; Interagency relations Educational standards Mathematics Education program evaluation Aid for education Physical sciences Dept. of Education Dwight D. Eisenhower Mathematics and Science Education Program