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§6645 National Evaluation and Information Dissemination

Title 20 › CHAPTER 70 — STRENGTHENING AND IMPROVEMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS › SUBCHAPTER II — PREPARING, TRAINING, AND RECRUITING HIGH-QUALITY TEACHERS, PRINCIPALS, OR OTHER SCHOOL LEADERS › Part B — National Activities › subpart 2 — literacy education for all, results for the nation › § 6645

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Director of the Institute of Education Sciences must use funds reserved under section 6642(b)(1) to run a national evaluation of the grant and subgrant programs under this subpart. The evaluation must use rigorous, systematic research to learn how the programs are carried out and what effects they have, and it must coordinate directly with each State’s evaluation of those programs. The Secretary must give the findings to State education agencies and subgrant recipients to help improve programs, post the findings publicly (including on the Department and IES websites), send the findings to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate and the Committee on Education and the Workforce of the House of Representatives, and publish best practices for carrying out evidence-based activities. Evidence-based activities: activities that meet the requirements of section 7801(21)(A)(i).

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Title 20, §6645

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(a)National evaluation
From funds reserved under section 6642(b)(1) of this title, the Director of the Institute of Education Sciences shall conduct a national evaluation of the grant and subgrant programs assisted under this subpart. Such evaluation shall include high-quality research that applies rigorous and systematic procedures to obtain valid knowledge relevant to the implementation and effect of the programs and shall directly coordinate with individual State evaluations of the programs’ implementation and impact.
(b)Program improvement
The Secretary shall—
(1)provide the findings of the evaluation conducted under this section to State educational agencies and subgrant recipients for use in program improvement;
(2)make such findings publicly available, including on the websites of the Department and the Institute of Education Sciences;
(3)submit such findings to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate and the Committee on Education and the Workforce of the House of Representatives; and
(4)make publicly available, in a manner consistent with paragraph (2), best practices for implementing evidence-based activities under this subpart, including evidence-based activities, defined for the purpose of this paragraph as activities meeting the requirements of section 7801(21)(A)(i) of this title.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 6645, Pub. L. 89–10, title II, § 2205, as added Pub. L. 103–382, title I, § 101, Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 3622; amended Pub. L. 104–208, div. A, title I, § 101(e) [title VII, § 709(b)(3)(A)], Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 3009–233, 3009–313, related to State applications, prior to its omission in the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 107–110.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective Dec. 10, 2015, except with respect to certain noncompetitive programs and competitive programs, see section 5 of Pub. L. 114–95, set out as an

Effective Date

of 2015 Amendment note under section 6301 of this title.

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Citation

20 U.S.C. § 6645

Title 20, Education

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110