Title 20 — EducationRelease 119-73

§9531 Establishment

Title 20 › Chapter CHAPTER 76— - EDUCATION RESEARCH, STATISTICS, EVALUATION, INFORMATION, AND DISSEMINATION › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - EDUCATION SCIENCES REFORM › Part Part B— - National Center for Education Research › § 9531

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

A National Center for Education Research is created inside the Institute. It funds and supports long-term research to build knowledge about education. The Center has four goals: make sure all children can get a high-quality education, improve student achievement (including using educational technology), close achievement gaps in core subjects and improve access to postsecondary education; gather and connect research findings; make sure research follows accepted scientific methods and is honest; and promote trustworthy research that helps improve teaching and lifelong learning.

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Title 20, §9531

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(a)There is established in the Institute a National Center for Education Research (in this part referred to as the “Research Center”).

(b)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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20 U.S.C. § 9531

Title 20 — Education

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73