Erin Dillon, Policy Analyst, and Andrew J. Rotherham, Co-director, Education Sector, provide a guide to understanding how No CHild Left Behind’s complex accountability system works overall and in different states. In States’ Evidence: What It Means to Make ‘Adequate Yearly Progress’ Under NCLB, they discuss basics of multiple routes schools can take to show Annual Yearly Progress.
This is an authoritative account every teachers, independent education software developer, and school evangelist will find useful, at least as a reference.