Together with our partners, AIR has conducted the two largest studies of the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act to date: The National Longitudinal Study of the No Child Left Behind Act (NLS-NCLB) and the Study of State Implementation of NCLB (SSI-NCLB).  While the first study collected two waves of survey data from a nationally-representative sample of districts officials, principals, teachers, and paraprofessionals, the SSI-NCLB gathered interview and extant data from state directors of assessment and accountability, teacher quality, Title III, and supplemental educational services in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Together, these studies constitute the major data sources for the Congressionally-mandated National Assessment of Title I, the purpose of which is to inform Congress prior to the next reauthorization of ESEA.

Supplemental Educational Services and Student Achievement in Five Waiver Districts (2011)

State and Local Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act, Volume IX: Accountability Under NCLB: Final Report (2010)

State and Local Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act, Volume VII—Title I School Choice and Supplemental Educational Services: Final Report (2009)

State and Local Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act, Volume VI—Targeting and Uses of Federal Education Funds (2009)

State and Local Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act, Volume V—Implementation of the 1 Percent Rule and 2 Percent Interim Policy Options(2009)

State and Local Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act, Volume IV—Title I School Choice and Supplemental Educational Services: Interim Report (2008)

State and Local Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act Volume III—Accountability Under NCLB: Interim Report (2007)

State and Local Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act Volume II—Teacher Quality Under NCLB: Interim Report (2007)

National Assessment of Title I: Interim Report to Congress (2006)

• Volume I—Implementation of Title I
• Volume II—Closing the Reading Gap: First Year Findings from a Randomized Trial of Four Reading Interventions for Striving Readers
• Title I Implementation—Update on Recent Evaluation Findings (2009)