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Teacher Evaluation: In search of the Holy Grail
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011 - 13:07
Standardized tests are praised by some as a rational route to evaluating individual teachers or districts, while others vilify the technique as an outright attack on the entire educational profession. This debate, highly politicized, has emerged in many press articles as the beginning and the end of discussions about teacher evaluation.
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Interview with: Former leader of NC’s ARRA efforts (Part III)
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010 - 7:05
Monday, December 13, 2010 - 19:08
Last week, we posted some thoughts from Dempsey Benton, the former head of North Carolina’s Office of Economic Recovery and Investment. First we shared his thoughts on what worked, then on what didn’t work.
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State Oversight Headaches
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010 - 6:28
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 - 06:19
One of the major “lessons learned” in the Recovery Act was that the capacity of state auditors and comptrollers to provide oversight was severely jeopardized by a lack of funds. As Earl Devaney, chair of the Recovery Board, told us: “The Act asked them to participate in the oversight activity and didn’t give them any money to do that. The money went to the federal Inspectors General, not the states. That was unfair.”
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Frank B. Strickland
Friday, October 15th, 2010 - 7:31
Frank B. Strickland is a Senior Fellow with the IBM Center for The Business of Government and a Partner with IBM's Global Business Services.
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Pinning Down Performance
Thursday, June 17th, 2010 - 4:46
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 - 18:27
Performance measurement and evaluation have often received short shrift in reports about the Recovery Act. We were pleased to see that the May 2010 GAO Recovery Act report goes into more detail about these topics – even if they still only take up a small portion of the 344-pages. Here are some promising efforts that we've culled to share with you.
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Pick a Number
Monday, May 3rd, 2010 - 11:19
Factcheck.org, sponsored by the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, is designed to reduce confusion and deception in U.S. politics. We've been following its commentary for some time, and have been generally impressed.
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A Stark Difference
Friday, April 16th, 2010 - 10:03
This week, the Council of Economic Advisers released its third quarterly report (for Q1 2010) on the impact of the federal stimulus with respect to jobs created or saved. The headline numbers: ARRA stimulated between 2.2 and 2.8 million jobs.
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Cash for Clunkers: Digging Deeper
Thursday, April 15th, 2010 - 10:10
The debate over the economic benefits of last summer’s “Cash for Clunkers” program continues. Recently, the White House blog and Edmunds.com exchanged salvos in the argument. But the economic benefits are only one part of the question.
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A civilized followup
Thursday, April 8th, 2010 - 16:23
Last week, we noted the excellent back-and-forth between Veronique de Rugy and Nate Silver regarding some of de Rugy's research into stimulus spending. The best part of the debate, at least for us, was that two smart people put aside differences to prod each other to better answers and sharper thinking.
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Conflicting goals, weatherization and a little about soccer
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010 - 11:29
One of our very favorite Governing columns that we've written over the years was about performance measurement and girls' soccer. As we watched our daughter play, we noticed we were seeing some of the same performance issues come up as we'd seen in government. One of the chief problems was that of conflicting goals. Coaches said they wanted to develop players and win games, but doing both those things simultaneously was tricky.
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