Pain and Gain: Implementing No Child Left Behind in Three States, 2004-2006

The Implementing StandardsBased Accountability (ISBA) study was designed to examine the strategies that states, districts, and schools are using to implement standardsbased accountability under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). This monograph presents information regarding the implementation of NCLB in California, Georgia, and Pennsylvania from 2003-2004 through 2005-2006, including the final results of the ISBA project.