 
 CHAPTER 70--STRENGTHENING AND IMPROVEMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY 
                                 SCHOOLS
 
    SUBCHAPTER I--HELPING DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN MEET HIGH STANDARDS
 
  Part E--Federal Evaluations, Demonstrations, and Transition Projects
 
Sec. 6492. Demonstrations of innovative practices


(a) Demonstration programs to improve achievement

                           (1) In general

        From the funds appropriated for any fiscal year under section 
    6302(g)(2) of this title, the Secretary may make grants to State 
    educational agencies, local educational agencies, other public 
    agencies, nonprofit organizations, public or private partnerships 
    involving business and industry organizations, and consortia of such 
    entities to carry out demonstration projects that show the most 
    promise of enabling children served under this subchapter to meet 
    challenging State content standards and challenging State student 
    performance standards. Such projects shall include promising 
    strategies such as--
            (A) accelerated curricula, the application of new 
        technologies to improve teaching and learning, extended learning 
        time, and a safe and enriched full-day environment for children 
        to provide children the opportunity to reach such standards;
            (B) integration of education services with each other and 
        with health, family, and other social services such as mentoring 
        programs, particularly in empowerment zones and enterprise 
        communities;
            (C) effective approaches to whole school reform;
            (D) programs that have been especially effective with 
        limited-English-proficient children, migratory children and 
        other highly mobile students, children leaving institutions for 
        neglected or delinquent children and returning to school, and 
        homeless children and youth;
            (E) programs which are especially effective in recruiting, 
        inducting, and retaining highly qualified teachers for service 
        in schools with low student achievement; and
            (F) programs that are built upon partnerships developed 
        between elementary and middle schools, employers, and the 
        community, which emphasize the integration of high quality 
        academic and vocational learning, stress excellence and high 
        expectations for success in academic subjects, instill 
        responsibility, decisionmaking, problem solving, interpersonal 
        skills, and other compentencies \1\ in students, and make school 
        relevant to the workplace and the community, through applied and 
        interactive teaching methodologies, team teaching strategies, 
        learning opportunities connecting school, the workplace, and the 
        community, and career exploration, awareness, and career 
        guidance opportunities.
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                           (2) Evaluation

        The Secretary shall evaluate the demonstration projects 
    supported under this subchapter, using rigorous methodological 
    designs and techniques, including control groups and random 
    assignment, to the extent feasible, to produce reliable evidence of 
    effectiveness.

(b) Partnerships

    From funds appropriated under section 6302(g)(2) of this title for 
any fiscal year, the Secretary may, directly or through grants or 
contracts, work in partnership with State educational agencies, local 
educational agencies, other public agencies, and nonprofit organizations 
to disseminate and use the highest quality research and knowledge about 
effective practices to improve the quality of teaching and learning in 
schools assisted under this subchapter.

(Pub. L. 89-10, title I, Sec. 1502, as added Pub. L. 103-382, title I, 
Sec. 101, Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 3604.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 6302 of this title.
