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 PUBLIC LAW 103-227—MAR. 31, 1994 108 STAT. 245 (E) provide training and technical assistance regarding the implementation and adoption of exemplary and promising programs by interested entities; (F) carry out a program of research on models for successful knowledge dissemination, and utilization, and strategies for reaching education policymakers, practitioners, and others interested in education; (G) develop the capacity to connect schools and teachers seeking information with the relevant regional educational laboratories assisted under subsection (h), the National Diffusion Network, the Institutes assisted under this section, and the Educational Resources Information Center Clearinghouses; and (H) provide a biennial report to the Secretary regarding Reports. the types of information, products, and services that teachers, schools, and school districts have requested and have determined to be most useful, and describe future plans to adapt Department of Education products and services to address the needs of the users of such information, products, and services. (3) ADDITIONAL DUTIES. — The Dissemination Office shall carry out a process for the identification of educational programs that work, dissemination through electronic networking and new technologies and the functions and activities performed by the following: (A) The Educational Resources Information Center Clearinghouses. (B) The regional educational laboratories. (C) The Teacher Research Dissemination Demonstration Program, (D) The Goals 2000 Community Partnerships Program. (E) The existing National Diffusion Network and its Developer-Demonstrator and State Facilitator projects. (F) Such other programs, activities, or entities the Secretary determines are consistent with purposes for which the Dissemination Office is established. (c) IDENTIFICATION OF PROGRAMS.— The Assistant Secretary shall coordinate a process through which successful educational programs are actively sought out for possible dissemination through the national educational dissemination system. Such process shall, at a minimum, have the capability to— (1) work closely with the Institutes, research and development centers, regional educational laboratories, the National Diffusion Network and its Developer-Demonstrator and State Facilitator projects, learning grant institutions established under the Goals 2000 Community Partnerships Program, Department of Education-supported technical assistance providers, and other entities to identify successful educational programs at the regional. State, local, or classroom level; (2) review successful educational programs supported by the Department of Education through all of its programs; (3) through cooperative agreements, review for possible inclusion in the system educational programs administered by the Departments of Health and Human Services (particularly the Head Start program). Labor, and Defense, the National Science Foundation, the Department of the Interior (particu-

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