His company is working with UCCnet to devise standards in the consumer goods industry.

But those devising new standards and assessments say all the hand-wringing is for naught.

One reason is the role states have already begun playing in devising new standards and curriculums and testing methods.

In the 1870s and in light of modern precision, a series of international conferences was held to devise new metric standards.

With the standards institute in the vanguard, international research laboratories have devised entirely new standards for nearly all of the metric system.

You can't devise standards unless you know the range of possibilities.

Museums should devise tougher standards for themselves, accepting the burden of proof.

The states have five years to devise standards and tests.

And the next step is plainly to devise not Federal Government, but national standards of excellence.

The main question, though, has to do with how, in future, we are to devise further standards.