Title 20 — EducationRelease 119-73not60

§9531 Establishment

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

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Creates a National Center for Education Research inside the Institute. Its job is to fund and carry out long-term research to build useful knowledge about education. The research must help make sure all children get a high-quality education; raise student achievement, including by using educational technology; narrow gaps between higher- and lower-performing students by improving teaching and learning in reading, writing, math, science, and other subjects; and improve access to postsecondary education. It also brings research together, uses accepted scientific methods to ensure quality and produces reliable findings schools can use to 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 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60