The U of O Education School IS directly responsible. Jerry Rosiek is a professor there leading the local charge against standardized testing. You won't find many graduate education programs emphasizing the teaching of grammar and writing skills. The first thing I was told in my interview at U of O is that they are a "social justice" program. They focus on race/class/gender issues at the expense of content knowledge. You will hear plenty about "white privilege" in graduate education programs but little about how to control a classroom or what knowledge and skills to cover.