The progress states have made toward fulfilling their requirements under Title I of the Improving America's Schools Act is reported. Some states are reporting that they have developed content standards for some subjects, but not for others. In some states, both local school district and state standards are being developed. In all, 43 states had content standards in mathematics as of January 1998, and 42 states had content standards in English language arts. By July 1998, the Department had approved the strategies and timetables for performance standards of 20 states and Puerto Rico toward implementing the kinds of assessments Title I requires, but 30 states and the District of Columbia were without an approved process for developing performance standards. By the time the law was enacted, a number of states had already made significant progress toward implementing the types of assessments Title I requires, but many states had not, and many were silent on the subject of inclusion of limited-English-proficient students in assessment. Other assessment issues considered by some states and ignored by others were including native language assessments, assessing disabled students, and the disaggregation of assessment data. The accountability of states during the transition period is also discussed. Overall, states present a very mixed picture with regard to the requirements of Title I. (SLD)