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DeSeve identifies seven primary lessons from implementation of the Recovery Act.
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After years of looking at performance measurement in a whole variety of fields, we've come up with two basic principles that we think apply in most cases:
1) You can't have enough performance measurement and evaluation.
2) Too many performance measures...
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According to the Association of Government Accountants, Nevada is the first state to issue a two-page “citizen centric” report on the use of its stimulus funds. The AGA has set up a pilot program encouraging these short quarterly reports, which are designed...
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There’s a pot of cash and the states can come and get it – if they follow the desired performance standards. . . . In the case of Race to the Top, “the very sweet carrot,” as Posner puts it, has created real momentum for reform at the state level.
Around...
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The blog that begins today in this space is our effort to help to fill in some of those blanks – and also to provide an opportunity for discussions of a variety of other interesting, stimulus-related news and observations.
There is a mammoth amount...
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Dr. Ines R. Triay was appointed by President Obama as the 7th DOE Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management and sworn into office in May 2009.
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"A strong safety culture is a culture where workers take care of each other and where they collaborate
with leaders of the organization to identify how to work better.”
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"The biggest challenge is [to combat] that old adage
that ‘speed is the enemy of accuracy.’ When you
put out $125 billion in one day you can’t make a
mistake—you need to do that perfectly.”
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"The mission of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is to
improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of healthcare
for all Americans."
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