necessary to succeed in work and life. (10) The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) rankings find that the United States is falling behind other nations in preparing students with the educational tools necessary to compete for the growing opportunities in the sciences, including careers related to the environment, natural resources, and energy. (11) Forty-six States have developed, or are in the process of developing, environmental literacy plans to effectively integrate environmental education into the prekindergarten through grade 12 curriculum and to ensure that students graduate from high school environmentally literate. (12) Support from the Department of Education is needed to help State and local educational agencies, and the partners of such agencies, implement environmental literacy plans and advance State curriculum frameworks for environmental and natural resource education that meets new State academic content and student achievement standards. (13) Federal science agencies, natural resource agencies, and other agencies have important resources, including Federal lands and laboratories, content experts, data, and programs, that can inform and support State and local environmental literacy policies and programming. 3. Environmental literacy Title IV ( 20 U.S.C. 7101 et seq. ) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 is amended by adding at the end the following: G Environmental literacy 4701. Definitions In this part: (1) Eligible partnership The term eligible partnership means a partnership that includes a local educational agency and not less than 1 of the following partners: (A) A Federal, State, regional, or local environmental or natural resource management agency, or parks and recreation department, that has demonstrated effectiveness, expertise, and experience in the field of environmental literacy, including the professional development of teachers. (B) A nonprofit organization that has demonstrated effectiveness, expertise, and experience in the field of