This report stems from the Data Innovation in US Education initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The work was led by the Preva Group, in partnership with IMPAQ and Periscopic. The initiative had three overarching goals: to support the Foundation's efforts to better understand the impact of their education investments; to develop methods which can be used by the Foundation and state and local policy-makers to quickly collect and make sense of high quality education data; and to meet the Foundation's objective of providing educators with tools and supports to deliver literacy instruction aligned with the Common Core State Standards. This paper presents the Automated Alignment project, devised to address the third goal.