A key component of Title I is a high-quality assessment system
aligned with the States content and performance standards that
helps to ensure that the performance expected of children in
Title I schools is the same as that expected of all children.
Such an assessment system would monitor progress toward
achievement goals for accountability and would stimulate and
support superior instruction, functions that are not well served
by many current assessment systems. Allowing States to develop
or adopt different assessment systems provides for flexibility
to address the needs of children in each State and its LEAs and
schools. Title I requires each State to develop or adopt a set
of high-quality yearly student assessments that measure
performance in at least mathematics and reading/language arts,
and to use these assessments as the primary means of determining
the yearly performance of each school and LEA served under Part
A in enabling all participating children to meet the States
student performance standards. T