Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 121.djvu/718

 PUBLIC LAW 110–69—AUG. 9, 2007

121 STAT. 697

‘‘(E) the extent to which the evaluation described in paragraph (1)(E) will be independent and based on objective measures;’’; (8) by striking paragraph (2) of subsection (c) and inserting the following: ‘‘(2) REPORT ON EVALUATIONS.—Not later than 4 years after the date of enactment of the America COMPETES Act, the Director shall transmit a report summarizing the evaluations required under subsection (b)(1)(E) of grants received under this program and describing any changes to the program recommended as a result of these evaluations to the Committee on Science and Technology and the Committee on Education and Labor of the House of Representatives and to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate. Such report shall be made widely available to the public.’’; and (9) by adding at the end the following: ‘‘(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— ‘‘(1) the term ‘mathematics and science teacher’ means a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics teacher at the elementary school or secondary school level; and ‘‘(2) the term ‘science’, in the context of elementary and secondary education, includes technology and pre-engineering.’’. SEC. 7029. NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION TEACHER INSTITUTES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY.

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Section 9(a) of the National Science Foundation Authorization Act of 2002 (as amended by section 7028) (42 U.S.C. 1862n(a)) is further amended by adding at the end the following: ‘‘(10) TEACHER INSTITUTES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY.— ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Teacher institutes for the 21st century carried out in accordance with paragraph (3)(B) shall— ‘‘(i) be carried out in conjunction with a school served by the local educational agency in the partnership; ‘‘(ii) be science, technology, engineering, and mathematics focused institutes that provide professional development to elementary school and secondary school teachers; ‘‘(iii) serve teachers who— ‘‘(I) are considered highly qualified (as defined in section 9101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965); ‘‘(II) teach high-need subjects in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics; and ‘‘(III) teach in high-need schools (as described in section 1114(a)(1) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965); ‘‘(iv) focus on the priorities developed by the Director in consultation with a broad group of relevant educational organizations; ‘‘(v) be content-based and build on school year curricula that are experiment-oriented, content-based, and grounded in current research; ‘‘(vi) ensure that the pedagogy component is designed around specific strategies that are relevant

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