Edited sentence: The NCEE was known to have worked with states and districts which covered as many as half of the public school students in the nation, including Washington,  Vermont, and Texas, and to have essentially written the initial legislation.The other view is that OBE was really driven by the education reform industry, such as the NCEE, which would visit districts and legislators, and use processes such as the Delphi technique on isolated business, parent and education leaders to get their help in implementing OBE instead of considering  whether OBE was a good idea in the first place.Very few citizens outside the small education reform opposition movement know of the central role played by the NCEE in the mass adoption of tying graduation to passing standards-based assessments such as WASL.which created and authorized spending for OBE testing and standards, and the Certificate of Initial Mastery which would be awarded upon passing a test which demonstrated achieving the learning "outcomes"