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 112 STAT. 2704 PUBLIC LAW 105-285—OCT. 27, 1998 duration, to make sustainable changes in a family, and that integrate all of the following activities: "(A) Interactive literacy activities between parents and their children. "(B) Training for parents regarding how to be the primary teacher for their children and ftili partners in the education of their children. "(C) Parent literacy training that leads to economic self-sufficiency. "(D) An age-appropriate education to prepare children for success in school and Ufe experiences."; (6) in pan^iraph (6), by adding at the end the following: "Nothhig in th^ paragraph shall be construed to require an agency to provide services to a child who has not reached the age of compulsory school attendance for more than the number of hours per day permitted by State law (including regulation) for the provision of services to such a child."; ' (7) by striking paragraph (12) and inserting the following: "(12) The term 'migrant and seasonal Head Start program' means— "(A) with respect to services for migrant farmworkers, a Head Start program that serves families who are engaged in agricultural Ismor and who have changed their residence from one geographic location to another in the preceding 2-year period; and "(B) with respect to services for seasonal farmworkers, a Head Start program that serves families who are engaged primarily in seasonal agricultural labor and who have not changed their residence to another geographic location in ^ the preceding 2-year period."; ~ (8) by inserting after paragraph (14) the following: "(15) The term 'scientifically based reading research'— "(A) means the application ofrigorous,systematic, and ^• olgective procedures to obtain valid knowledge relevant to reading development, reading instruction, and reading difficulties; and "(B) shall include research that— "(i) employs systematic, empirical methods that draw on observation or experiment; "(ii) involves rigorous data anal3rses that are adequate to test the stated hypotheses and justify the general conclusions drawn; "(iii) relies on measurements or observational methods that provide valid data across evaluators and observers and across multiple measurements and observations; and "(iv) has been accepted by a peer-reviewed journal or approved by a panel of independent experts tiirough a comparably rigorous, objective, and scientific review.*; and (9) in paragraph (17) (as redesignated in paragraph (1))— (A) by striking "Term" and inserting "term"; (B) by striking "Virgin Islands," and inserting "Virgin Islands of the United States, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, but for fiscal years ending

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