15 U.S.C. § 278g–2a — Teacher science and technology enhancement Institute program

submitted 125 years ago by Pub. L. 105-309 to r/title-15-COMMERCE-AND-TRADE · 251 words · no verdicts yet

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The Director must create a summer program to train math and science teachers. The program covers topics like measurement, standards, and manufacturing. It runs each summer, before most schools start their year.

(a) Establishment: The Director must set up a program inside the Institute to help elementary, middle, and secondary school math and science teachers develop professionally — including understanding science better and how science affects commerce. The Director decides what counts as "elementary," "middle," and "secondary" schools. (b) Areas of focus: The program must focus on scientific measurement; developing tests and standards; industrial competitiveness and quality; manufacturing; technology transfer; and any other area of Institute expertise the Director thinks fits. (c) Procedures and selection criteria: The Director must create and publish rules and criteria for choosing participants, and must give special consideration to teachers from "high-need schools," as defined in section 1021 of title 20. (d) Scheduling: The program must run every year during the summer, when most elementary, middle, and secondary schools are not in session. (e) Means of accomplishing goals: Teachers can take part in activities at the Institute's labs, or the Director can use other methods — including the internet, video conferencing and recordings, and workshops and conferences — to meet the program's goals.

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(a) Establishment

The Director shall establish within the Institute a teacher science and technology enhancement program to provide for professional development of mathematics and science teachers of elementary, middle, and secondary schools (as those terms are defined by the Director), including providing for the improvement of those teachers with respect to the understanding of science and the impacts of science on commerce.

(b) Areas of focus

In carrying out the program under this section, the Director shall focus on the areas of—

(1)

scientific measurements;

(2)

tests and standards development;

(3)

industrial competitiveness and quality;

(4)

manufacturing;

(5)

technology transfer; and

(6)

any other area of expertise of the Institute that the Director determines to be appropriate.

The Director shall develop and issue procedures and selection criteria for participants in the program. The Director shall give special consideration to an application from a teacher from a high-need school, as defined in section 1021 of title 20.

(d) Scheduling

The program under this section shall be conducted on an annual basis during the summer months, during the period of time when a majority of elementary, middle, and secondary schools have not commenced a school year.

(e) Means of accomplishing goals

The program shall provide for teachers’ participation in activities at the laboratory facilities of the Institute, or shall utilize other means of accomplishing the goals of the program as determined by the Director, which may include the Internet, video conferencing and recording, and workshops and conferences.

Source credit: (Mar. 3, 1901, ch. 872, § 19A, as added Pub. L. 105–309, § 7, Oct. 30, 1998, 112 Stat. 2937; amended Pub. L. 111–358, title IV, § 406(c), Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 4004.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1901Enacted · Pub. L. 105-309 · 112 Stat. 2937
2011Amended · Pub. L. 111-358 · 124 Stat. 4004

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