Team Takes Standards-Review Effort on the Road

By Karen Diegmueller

Before the Oregon state school board adopted academic standards for the state's students last week, thousands of Oregonians had reviewed sundry drafts of the documents.

But the Oregon standards had another imprint no other state's has.

A team of standards experts from across the country visited the state to critique the unfinished documents, showing education officials how Oregon stacked up against others' efforts and giving the state the opportunity to...