RECENT LEGISLATION
America COMPETES Act or America Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science Act (S. 761, introduced March 5, 2007, “To invest in innovation and education to improve the competitiveness of the United States in the global economy”) >
For the full text, see the following link:
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=110_cong_bills&docid=f:s761pcs.txt.pdf
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- "Rising Above the Gathering Storm" by the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine. Full Text online: http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11463.html#toc
- "Innovate America" by the Council on Competitiveness. Full Text online: http://www.compete.org/pdf/NII_Interim_Report.pdf
- "National Competitiveness Investment Act." S3936. Full Text online: http://www.theorator.com/bills109/s3936.html
- "American Innovation and Competitiveness Act of 2006" S.2802. Full Text
online: http://commerce.senate.gov/public/_files/innovationasreported.PDF
- "Protecting America's Competitive Edge Through Energy Act of 2006" S.2197. Full Text online: http://www.innovateamerica.org/files/PACE_Energy_Bill.pdf:
- Increase National Science Foundation funding from $5.6 billion in 2006 to $11.2 billion by 2011
- Increase Department of Energy's Office of Science funding from $3.6 billion in 2006 to $5.2 billion in 2011
- Establish the Innovation Acceleration Research Program which will direct 8% of federal R&D funding to high-risk frontier research
- Increase funding of National Institute of Standards and Technology from $703 million in 2008 to $937 million in 2011, with 8% allocated to high-risk research.
- Direct NASA to increase research funding.
- Encourage research and education at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Grants to individual states for elementary and secondary education and establish longitudinal data systems to track progress.
- Teacher training at the National Laboratories and the Teacher Institutes for the 21st Century program at NSF
- Increase funding to the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program which recruits and trains teachers in math and science.
- Establish state-level magnet schools and provide National Laboratory assistance to teachers at these schools
- Increase AP program by training more teachers in AP-level subjects
- Create programs where teacher training certification can be obtained jointly with a separate bachelor's or master's degree.
- Assist "high-need" high schools by providing National Laboratories math and science support
- Provide more NSF graduate research opportunities
- Math Now grants to elementary and middle schools so all students obtain grade-level math ability.
- Increase foreign language programs from K-12, focusing on retention of students.
- President's Council on Innovation and Competitiveness
- National Academy of Sciences study on barriers to innovation
Five combined bills
1. 10,000 Teachers, 10 Million Minds (H.R. 362) Full Text online: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h110-362:
- Increase Robert Noyce Scholarship grants
- Establish national review board for teaching materials
- Establish NSF partnerships with secondary schools
- Grants for Master's programs for teachers
- Expand NSF grants to higher education science and math
- Monetary awards for researchers
- "National Coordination Office for Research Infrastructure" to identify and aid struggling research facilities
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h110-1867:
- From 2008 to 2010 NSF is authorized $6.5 billion to $7.5 billion
- Funding for needy higher education science institutions
- Examine and recommend plans for supporting interdisciplinary research
- Funding for STEM education programs
- $2.5 billion in funding for National Institutes of Science and Technology
- Technology Innovation Program to help businesses develop technology
- Expanded university involvement and NIST fellowships
- Increase research on high-performance computing
- Bring high-performance computing systems to researchers
- Increase undergraduate and graduate training in computer science, software engineering, and applied math
- Improve security of computer systems, including Federal