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employment which results in the
borrower not being eligible to receive
unemployment benefits under
applicable State law.
Application Procedures for Loan
Repayment and Payment Processing
(A) A borrower may request loan
repayment by completing the
Application and Service Agreement
approved by the Secretary and
providing any required supporting
documentation.
(B) The Secretary makes a student
loan repayment commitment for each
consecutive 12-month period of service
to a qualified applicant on a first-come,
first-served basis, according to the date
that the borrower’s complete and
accurate signed Application and Service
Agreement is received by the Secretary,
contingent upon the availability of
funds for the fiscal year on that date.
The date the application is received by
the Secretary is:
(1) No earlier than the first receipt
date established by the Secretary;
(2) No later than the deadline date for
receipt of applications specified in this
Notice; and
(3) If the borrower’s application is
incomplete or inaccurate, the date the
Secretary considers the borrower’s
application to be complete and accurate.
(C) The Secretary notifies applicants
of—
(1) Their eligibility or ineligibility for
a student loan repayment commitment;
(2) For eligible borrowers, the
required service period covered under
the borrower’s Service Agreement with
the Secretary;
(3) For eligible borrowers, the loan
repayment amount to be paid following
completion of the first consecutive 12month period of service covered under
the borrower’s Service Agreement; and
(4) Any other terms and conditions of
the Secretary’s payment of benefits.
(D) No later than 90 days after the end
of each consecutive 12-month period for
which the Secretary committed a loan
repayment amount for the borrower, the
borrower must submit to the Secretary
a certification of completed service
certified by the borrower’s employer on
a form approved by the Secretary.
(E) Upon receipt of the borrower’s
certification of completed service, the
Secretary will send the approved
repayment amount for which the
borrower qualified to the holder of the
borrower’s highest current outstanding
unsubsidized loan, if any, for payment
on that loan. If the borrower has no
outstanding unsubsidized loans, the
Secretary forwards the repayment
amount to the holder of the borrower’s
highest outstanding subsidized loan.
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(F) If the holder of the borrower’s
loan(s) determines that the repayment
amount received from the Secretary
exceeds the remaining balance of the
loan for which it is designated in
accordance with paragraph (E) of this
section, the holder must apply the
remaining balance to another eligible
loan of the borrower held by the holder,
if applicable. If the holder has no other
eligible loans of the borrower, the
holder must return the balance to the
Secretary. If applicable, the Secretary
will forward that balance to another
holder of the borrower’s eligible loans.
Repayment Procedures
(A) A borrower must repay to the
Secretary any repayment benefit
received if the borrower—
(1) Fails to complete all of the service
required under the Service Agreement;
or
(2) Before the end of the period of
employment required by the Service
Agreement, is involuntarily separated
from eligible employment due to
misconduct or voluntarily leaves that
eligible employment.
(B) Upon notification of a borrower’s
involuntary separation due to
misconduct or voluntary separation
from eligible employment, or upon a
borrower’s failure to submit a
certification of completed service within
90 days of the end date of the second
or subsequent consecutive 12-month
service period required to retain the
repayment benefit, the Secretary notifies
the borrower that the borrower must
repay any benefit received under the
Service Agreement unless the borrower
provides the Secretary, within 30 days
of the date of the Secretary’s notice,
with documentation that establishes to
the satisfaction of the Secretary that
such repayment should not be required.
(C) If, within 30 days of the date of the
Secretary’s notice under paragraph (B)
of this section, the borrower fails to
provide the Secretary with
documentation that establishes to the
satisfaction of the Secretary why the
borrower should not be required to
repay a benefit received, the Secretary
treats the payment amount as a Federal
debt and provides the borrower with a
repayment schedule that includes a
monthly payment amount, the first
payment due date, the applicable
interest rate, and any accrued interest.
The Secretary also informs the borrower
of any other terms and conditions of
repayment.
(D) If a borrower who is required to
repay a benefit received under a Service
Agreement fails to make a monthly
payment within 20 days of the due date,
the Secretary undertakes collection of
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the amount owed by the borrower using
all the methods provided for by law for
the recovery of Federal debts.
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Catalog of Federal Domestic
Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.409.
Delegation of Authority: The Secretary
of Education has delegated authority to
Daniel T. Madzelan, Director,
Forecasting and Policy Analysis for the
Office of Postsecondary Education, to
perform the functions and duties of the
Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary
Education.
Dated: June 30, 2010.
Daniel T. Madzelan,
Director, Forecasting and Policy Analysis.
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BILLING CODE 4000–01–P
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket ID ED–2010–IES–0008]
Notice Inviting Comments on Priorities
To Be Proposed to the National Board
for Education Sciences of the Institute
of Education Sciences
AGENCY: Institute of Education Sciences,
Department of Education.
ACTION: Notice inviting comments on
priorities to be proposed to the National
Board for Education Sciences of the
Institute of Education Sciences.
SUMMARY: The Director of the Institute of
Education Sciences (Institute) has
developed priorities to guide the work
of the Institute. The National Board for
Education Sciences (Board) must
approve the priorities, but before
proposing the priorities to the Board,
the Director must seek public comment
on the priorities. The public comments
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will be provided to the Board prior to
its action on the priorities.
DATES: We must receive your comments
on or before September 7, 2010.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments
through the Federal eRulemaking Portal
or via postal mail, commercial delivery,
or hand delivery. We will not accept
comments by fax or by e-mail. Please
submit your comments only one time, in
order to ensure that we do not receive
duplicate copies. In addition, please
include the Docket ID at the top of your
comments.
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov to submit
your comments electronically.
Information on using Regulations.gov,
including instructions for accessing
agency documents, submitting
comments, and viewing the docket, is
available on the site under ‘‘How To Use
This Site.’’
• Postal Mail, Commercial Delivery,
or Hand Delivery. If you mail or deliver
your comments about these proposed
priorities, address your comments to
Elizabeth Payer, U.S. Department of
Education, 555 New Jersey Avenue,
NW., room 602c, Washington, DC
20208.
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Privacy Note: The Department’s policy for
comments received from members of the
public (including those comments submitted
by mail, commercial delivery, or hand
delivery) is to make these submissions
available for public viewing in their entirety
on the Federal eRulemaking Portal at
https://www.regulations.gov. Therefore,
commenters should be careful to include in
their comments only information that they
wish to make publicly available on the
Internet.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Elizabeth Payer. Telephone: (202) 219–
1310.
If you use a telecommunications
device for the deaf (TDD), call the
Federal Relay Service (FRS), toll free, at
1–800–877–8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Invitation
to Comment: We invite you to submit
comments regarding these proposed
priorities. During and after the comment
period, you may inspect all public
comments about these proposed
priorities by accessing Regulations.gov.
You may also inspect the comments, in
person, in room 602q, 555 New Jersey
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC, between
the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m.,
Eastern time, Monday through Friday of
each week except Federal holidays.
Assistance to Individuals With
Disabilities in Reviewing the Record: On
request we will provide an appropriate
accommodation or auxiliary aid to an
individual with a disability who needs
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assistance to review the comments or
other documents in the public
rulemaking record for these proposed
priorities. If you want to schedule an
appointment for this type of
accommodation or auxiliary aid, please
contact the person listed under FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
Background: The Education Sciences
Reform Act of 2002 (20 U.S.C. 9516)
requires that the Director of the Institute
propose to the Board priorities for the
Institute. The Director is to identify
topics that require long term research
and topics that are focused on
understanding and solving education
problems and issues, including those
associated with the goals and
requirements of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act of 1965, as
amended; the Individuals with
Disabilities Education Act, as amended;
and the Higher Education Act of 1965,
as amended; such as closing the
achievement gap; ensuring that all
children have the ability to obtain a
high-quality education and reach, at a
minimum, proficiency on State
standards and assessments; and
ensuring access to, and opportunities
for, postsecondary education.
Before submitting proposed priorities
to the Board, the Director must make the
priorities available to the public for
comment for not less than 60 days. Each
comment submitted must be provided to
the Board.
The Director anticipates submitting to
the Board proposed priorities for the
Institute at a meeting to be held in
September, 2010.
The Board must approve or
disapprove the priorities for the
Institute proposed by the Director,
including any necessary revision of the
priorities. Approved priorities are to be
transmitted to appropriate congressional
committees by the Board.
The Director will publish in the
Federal Register the Institute’s plan for
addressing the priorities and make it
available for comment for not less than
60 days.
Proposed Priorities
The overall mission of the Institute is
to expand fundamental knowledge and
understanding of education and to
provide education leaders and
practitioners, parents and students,
researchers, and the general public with
unbiased, reliable, and useful
information about the condition and
progress of education in the United
States; about education policies,
programs, and practices; and about the
effectiveness of Federal and other
education programs.
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The work of the Institute is grounded
in the principle that effective education
research must be informed by the
interests and needs of education
practitioners and policymakers. To this
end, the Institute will encourage close
partnerships between researchers and
practitioners in the conceptualization,
planning, and conduct of research and
evaluation. The Institute will facilitate
the use of education statistics, research,
and evaluation in educational planning
both by including members of the
practitioner community in the design
and conduct of the work and by
producing reports that are accessible,
timely, and meaningful to the day-today work of education practitioners and
policymakers. Further, the Institute will
seek to increase the capacity of
education policymakers and
practitioners to use the knowledge
generated from high quality data
analysis, research, and evaluation.
To accomplish this mission, the
Institute will compile statistics, support
research, conduct evaluations, and
facilitate the use of scientific evidence
addressing a broad range of education
outcomes for all students, including
those with disabilities. These education
outcomes may include, but are not
limited to: School readiness and
developmental outcomes for infants,
toddlers, and young children; learning,
higher order thinking, and achievement
in reading and writing, mathematics,
and the sciences; behaviors, skills, and
dispositions that support learning in
school and later success in the
workforce; educational attainment in
postsecondary, vocational, and adult
education; and the training, recruitment,
and retention of educators.
Within these areas, the Institute will
sponsor work to: Examine the state of
education in the United States; develop
and evaluate innovative approaches to
improving education outcomes;
understand the characteristics of highquality teaching and how better to train
current and prospective teachers;
understand the processes of schooling
through which educational policies,
programs, and practices affect students;
and understand classroom, school, and
other social contextual factors that
moderate the effects of education
practices and contribute to their
successful implementation and
sustainability. In doing so, the Institute
will seek to identify education policies,
programs, and practices that improve
education outcomes; and to determine
how, why, for whom, and under what
conditions these policies, programs, and
practices are effective. In particular, the
Institute will promote research to
improve education outcomes for those
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students who have traditionally been
poorly served by the education system
because of their socioeconomic status,
race/ethnicity, disability, limited
English proficiency, and residential or
school mobility, with a goal of
generating knowledge to assist
educators and policymakers in assessing
and improving the equity of the
education system.
The Institute will maintain rigorous
scientific standards for the technical
quality of its statistics, research, and
evaluation activities, ensuring that the
methods applied are appropriate to the
questions asked and the results are valid
and reliable. The work of the Institute
will include a variety of research and
statistical methods. The Institute will
support the development of improved
research methods; improved measures
of a broad range of education processes,
systems, and outcomes; and improved
analytical approaches for designing and
conducting education research. Where
needed, the Institute will develop and
publish rigorous technical standards for
these methods. The Institute will ensure
the quality and objectivity of its work by
submitting all products to rigorous
scientific review. In addition to
supporting new research, the Institute
will facilitate the synthesis of existing
and ongoing research to construct
coherent bodies of scientific knowledge
about education. The Institute will build
the capacity of the education research
community by supporting post-doctoral
and interdisciplinary doctoral training
in the education sciences, equipping
education researchers with the skills to
conduct rigorous research and
effectively engage the practitioner
community in that research, and by
conducting training in research design
and methods and in the use of
longitudinal data.
Accessible Format: Individuals with
disabilities can obtain this document in
an accessible format (e.g., braille, large
print, audiotape, or computer diskette)
on request to the contact person listed
under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT.
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Electronic Access to This Document
You can view this document, as well
as all other documents of this
Department published in the Federal
Register, in text or Adobe Portable
Document Format (PDF) on the Internet
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news/fedregister. To use PDF you must
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is the document published in the Federal
Register. Free Internet access to the official
edition of the Federal Register and the Code
of Federal Regulations is available on GPO
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index.html.
(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
number does not apply.)
Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 9501 et seq.
Dated: July 1, 2010.
John Q. Easton,
Director, Institute of Education Sciences.
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BILLING CODE 4000–01–P
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket ID ED–2010–OPE–0007]
SAFRA Act Payments to Loan
Servicers for Job Retention
ACTION: Interim final requirements;
request for comments.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Secretary of
Education (Secretary) establishes
requirements to implement section
458(a)(7) of the Higher Education Act of
1965, as amended (HEA), as added by
section 2212(b)(1) of the SAFRA Act,
title II of the Health Care and Education
Reconciliation Act of 2010 (SAFRA).
Under this provision of the law, the
Secretary provides payments to student
loan servicers in Federal fiscal year (FY)
2010 and FY 2011 for retaining jobs at
locations in the United States where
such servicers were operating under
title IV, part B of the HEA (the Federal
Family Education Loan Program) on
January 1, 2010.
As discussed in more detail elsewhere
in these interim final requirements, the
Department adopts these requirements
for FY 2010 on an interim final basis.
We also request public comment on
these requirements. After consideration
of these comments, the Secretary will
publish final requirements that will
govern the program for FY 2011.
DATES: These requirements are effective
July 7, 2010. We must receive your
comments by August 6, 2010.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments
through the Federal eRulemaking Portal
or via postal mail, commercial delivery,
or hand delivery. We will not accept
comments by fax or by e-mail. Please
submit your comments only one time, in
order to ensure that we do not receive
duplicate copies. In addition, please
include the Docket ID at the top of your
comments.
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov to submit
your comments electronically.
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Information on using Regulations.gov,
including instructions for accessing
agency documents, submitting
comments, and viewing the docket, is
available on the site under ‘‘How To Use
This Site.’’
• Postal Mail, Commercial Delivery,
or Hand Delivery: If you mail or deliver
your comments about these interim final
requirements, address them to Donald
Conner, 1990 K Street, NW., Room 8030,
Washington, DC 20006.
Privacy Note: The Department’s policy for
comments received from members of the
public (including those comments submitted
by mail, commercial delivery, or hand
delivery) is to make these submissions
available for public viewing in their entirety
on the Federal eRulemaking Portal at
https://www.regulations.gov. Therefore,
commenters should be careful to include in
their comments only information that they
wish to make publicly available on the
Internet.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Donald Conner, Telephone: 202–502–
7818 or by e-mail:
Donald.conner@ed.gov.
If you use a telecommunications
device for the deaf (TDD), call the
Federal Relay Service (FRS), toll free, at
1–800–877–8339.
Individuals with disabilities can
obtain this document in an accessible
format (e.g., braille, large print,
audiotape, or computer diskette) on
request to the contact person listed
under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Invitation To Comment
We invite you to submit comments
regarding these interim final
requirements. To ensure that your
comments have maximum effect in
developing the requirements for FY
2011 for this program, we urge you to
identify clearly the specific section or
sections of the interim final
requirements that each of your
comments addresses and to arrange your
comments in the same order as in the
interim final requirements.
We invite you to assist us in
complying with the specific
requirements of Executive Order 12866
and its overall requirement of reducing
regulatory burden that might result from
these interim final requirements. Please
let us know of any further opportunities
we should take to reduce potential costs
or increase potential benefits while
preserving the effective and efficient
administration of the program.
During and after the comment period,
you may inspect all public comments
about these interim final requirements
by accessing Regulations.gov. You may
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket ID ED-2010-IES-0008]
Notice Inviting Comments on Priorities To Be Proposed to the
National Board for Education Sciences of the Institute of Education
Sciences
AGENCY: Institute of Education Sciences, Department of Education.
ACTION: Notice inviting comments on priorities to be proposed to the
National Board for Education Sciences of the Institute of Education
Sciences.
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SUMMARY: The Director of the Institute of Education Sciences
(Institute) has developed priorities to guide the work of the
Institute. The National Board for Education Sciences (Board) must
approve the priorities, but before proposing the priorities to the
Board, the Director must seek public comment on the priorities. The
public comments
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will be provided to the Board prior to its action on the priorities.
DATES: We must receive your comments on or before September 7, 2010.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments through the Federal eRulemaking Portal
or via postal mail, commercial delivery, or hand delivery. We will not
accept comments by fax or by e-mail. Please submit your comments only
one time, in order to ensure that we do not receive duplicate copies.
In addition, please include the Docket ID at the top of your comments.
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to https://www.regulations.gov to submit your comments electronically. Information
on using Regulations.gov, including instructions for accessing agency
documents, submitting comments, and viewing the docket, is available on
the site under ``How To Use This Site.''
Postal Mail, Commercial Delivery, or Hand Delivery. If you
mail or deliver your comments about these proposed priorities, address
your comments to Elizabeth Payer, U.S. Department of Education, 555 New
Jersey Avenue, NW., room 602c, Washington, DC 20208.
Privacy Note: The Department's policy for comments received from
members of the public (including those comments submitted by mail,
commercial delivery, or hand delivery) is to make these submissions
available for public viewing in their entirety on the Federal
eRulemaking Portal at https://www.regulations.gov. Therefore,
commenters should be careful to include in their comments only
information that they wish to make publicly available on the
Internet.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elizabeth Payer. Telephone: (202) 219-
1310.
If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD), call the
Federal Relay Service (FRS), toll free, at 1-800-877-8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Invitation to Comment: We invite you to
submit comments regarding these proposed priorities. During and after
the comment period, you may inspect all public comments about these
proposed priorities by accessing Regulations.gov. You may also inspect
the comments, in person, in room 602q, 555 New Jersey Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC, between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m., Eastern
time, Monday through Friday of each week except Federal holidays.
Assistance to Individuals With Disabilities in Reviewing the
Record: On request we will provide an appropriate accommodation or
auxiliary aid to an individual with a disability who needs assistance
to review the comments or other documents in the public rulemaking
record for these proposed priorities. If you want to schedule an
appointment for this type of accommodation or auxiliary aid, please
contact the person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
Background: The Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 (20 U.S.C.
9516) requires that the Director of the Institute propose to the Board
priorities for the Institute. The Director is to identify topics that
require long term research and topics that are focused on understanding
and solving education problems and issues, including those associated
with the goals and requirements of the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act of 1965, as amended; the Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act, as amended; and the Higher Education Act of 1965, as
amended; such as closing the achievement gap; ensuring that all
children have the ability to obtain a high-quality education and reach,
at a minimum, proficiency on State standards and assessments; and
ensuring access to, and opportunities for, postsecondary education.
Before submitting proposed priorities to the Board, the Director
must make the priorities available to the public for comment for not
less than 60 days. Each comment submitted must be provided to the
Board.
The Director anticipates submitting to the Board proposed
priorities for the Institute at a meeting to be held in September,
2010.
The Board must approve or disapprove the priorities for the
Institute proposed by the Director, including any necessary revision of
the priorities. Approved priorities are to be transmitted to
appropriate congressional committees by the Board.
The Director will publish in the Federal Register the Institute's
plan for addressing the priorities and make it available for comment
for not less than 60 days.
Proposed Priorities
The overall mission of the Institute is to expand fundamental
knowledge and understanding of education and to provide education
leaders and practitioners, parents and students, researchers, and the
general public with unbiased, reliable, and useful information about
the condition and progress of education in the United States; about
education policies, programs, and practices; and about the
effectiveness of Federal and other education programs.
The work of the Institute is grounded in the principle that
effective education research must be informed by the interests and
needs of education practitioners and policymakers. To this end, the
Institute will encourage close partnerships between researchers and
practitioners in the conceptualization, planning, and conduct of
research and evaluation. The Institute will facilitate the use of
education statistics, research, and evaluation in educational planning
both by including members of the practitioner community in the design
and conduct of the work and by producing reports that are accessible,
timely, and meaningful to the day-to-day work of education
practitioners and policymakers. Further, the Institute will seek to
increase the capacity of education policymakers and practitioners to
use the knowledge generated from high quality data analysis, research,
and evaluation.
To accomplish this mission, the Institute will compile statistics,
support research, conduct evaluations, and facilitate the use of
scientific evidence addressing a broad range of education outcomes for
all students, including those with disabilities. These education
outcomes may include, but are not limited to: School readiness and
developmental outcomes for infants, toddlers, and young children;
learning, higher order thinking, and achievement in reading and
writing, mathematics, and the sciences; behaviors, skills, and
dispositions that support learning in school and later success in the
workforce; educational attainment in postsecondary, vocational, and
adult education; and the training, recruitment, and retention of
educators.
Within these areas, the Institute will sponsor work to: Examine the
state of education in the United States; develop and evaluate
innovative approaches to improving education outcomes; understand the
characteristics of high-quality teaching and how better to train
current and prospective teachers; understand the processes of schooling
through which educational policies, programs, and practices affect
students; and understand classroom, school, and other social contextual
factors that moderate the effects of education practices and contribute
to their successful implementation and sustainability. In doing so, the
Institute will seek to identify education policies, programs, and
practices that improve education outcomes; and to determine how, why,
for whom, and under what conditions these policies, programs, and
practices are effective. In particular, the Institute will promote
research to improve education outcomes for those
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students who have traditionally been poorly served by the education
system because of their socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity,
disability, limited English proficiency, and residential or school
mobility, with a goal of generating knowledge to assist educators and
policymakers in assessing and improving the equity of the education
system.
The Institute will maintain rigorous scientific standards for the
technical quality of its statistics, research, and evaluation
activities, ensuring that the methods applied are appropriate to the
questions asked and the results are valid and reliable. The work of the
Institute will include a variety of research and statistical methods.
The Institute will support the development of improved research
methods; improved measures of a broad range of education processes,
systems, and outcomes; and improved analytical approaches for designing
and conducting education research. Where needed, the Institute will
develop and publish rigorous technical standards for these methods. The
Institute will ensure the quality and objectivity of its work by
submitting all products to rigorous scientific review. In addition to
supporting new research, the Institute will facilitate the synthesis of
existing and ongoing research to construct coherent bodies of
scientific knowledge about education. The Institute will build the
capacity of the education research community by supporting post-
doctoral and interdisciplinary doctoral training in the education
sciences, equipping education researchers with the skills to conduct
rigorous research and effectively engage the practitioner community in
that research, and by conducting training in research design and
methods and in the use of longitudinal data.
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[FR Doc. 2010-16527 Filed 7-6-10; 8:45 am]
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