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The '''National Diffusion Network''' ([[United States]], 1974–1995) was the first federally sponsored effort to identify and spread to America's schools innovative education programs. The program was created administratively by the then-Office of Education in the [[United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare|Department of Health, Education, and Welfare]] as an effort to make use of the best of the [[Elementary and Secondary Education Act]] Title III education innovations. | The '''National Diffusion Network''' ([[United States]], 1974–1995) was the first federally sponsored effort to identify and spread to America's schools innovative education programs. The program was created administratively by the then-Office of Education in the [[United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare|Department of Health, Education, and Welfare]] as an effort to make use of the best of the [[Elementary and Secondary Education Act]] Title III education innovations. | ||
The NDN<ref>[http://www.ed.gov/legislation/ESEA/sec13201.html Archived: SEC. 13201. PROGRAM AUTHORIZED<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> operated successfully, at a congressionally approved appropriations level varying between $8-million and $14-million per year, for 20 years. It, like several other small programs then administered by the [[United States Department of Education|U.S. Department of Education]] was eliminated by having its funding stopped by the 105th Congress, under the implementation of a cost-cutting initiative sponsored by new Speaker of the House [[Newt Gingrich]], called the [[Contract with America]]. | The NDN<ref>[http://www.ed.gov/legislation/ESEA/sec13201.html Archived: SEC. 13201. PROGRAM AUTHORIZED<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> operated successfully, at a congressionally approved appropriations level varying between $8-million and $14-million per year, for 20 years. It, like several other small programs then administered by the [[United States Department of Education|U.S. Department of Education]] was eliminated by having its funding stopped by the 105th Congress, under the implementation of a cost-cutting initiative sponsored by new Speaker of the House [[Newt Gingrich]], called the [[Contract with America]]. | ||