Chiefs Seek Summit Call for Standards Review

By Millicent Lawton

Washington

Participants in this week's national education summit should agree to create a voluntary process for reviewing the states' academic standards, the nation's schools chiefs said last week.

The summit, organized by Gov. Tommy G. Thompson of Wisconsin and IBM Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Louis V. Gerstner Jr., will gather most of the state governors and many corporate executives in Palisades, N.Y., for two days. They plan to focus on standards,...