---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 9532"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "9532"
heading: "Commissioner for Education Research"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/9532"
units:
  - "Chapter 76 — Education Research, Statistics, Evaluation, Information, and Dissemination"
  - "Subchapter I — Education Sciences Reform"
  - "Part B — National Center for Education Research"
---

# §9532. Commissioner for Education Research


The Research Center shall be headed by a Commissioner for Education Research (in this part referred to as the “Research Commissioner”) who shall have substantial knowledge of the activities of the Research Center, including a high level of expertise in the fields of research and research management.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–279, title I, § 132, Nov. 5, 2002, 116 Stat. 1954.)