Editing National Defense Education Act (section)

===Title III===

Title III provides additional financial assistance for the purposes of strengthening science, math, and foreign language programs. Latin and Greek programs are not funded under this title, on the grounds that they are not modern foreign languages, and thus do not support defense needs.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Heller|first1=John|title=The Classics and the National Defense Education Act|journal=The Classical Journal|date=1959|volume=54|issue=7|pages=303–306}}</ref> Title III provides equipment, materials and state matching funds to develop mathematics, science, and foreign language instruction and professional development.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Jolly |first=Jennifer |date=Spring 2009 |title=The National Defense Education Act, Current STEM Initiative, and the Gifted |url=https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ835843.pdf}}</ref> Title III also encouraged cooperation between teachers and researchers.<ref name=":0" /> During Title III, research shifted the homogenous definition of intelligence associated with gifted children.<ref name=":0" />