Download the complete PDF with footnotes here I am sorry that you did not contact me before releasing the Illawarra Forum’s February 2010 publication of “Practicing Social Justice” and in particular Report 3 of that monograph, “Made to measure.” As described in this letter and in the more detailed attachment, Report 3 contains numerous errors regarding the Results-Based Accountability TM …
The Rise and Fall of the GDP
Check out this interesting article on GDP. Read the New York Times Article
Results-Based Accountability (RBA) Self-Assessment
The Results Leadership Group has released an excellent poster sized implementation checklist. Click on this link f more information. Thanks to Justin Miklas. Check it out here.
Neighborkid Wisdom Revealed through Results-Based Accountability, Allison Pinto, Sarasota County, Florida.
Neighborkid Wisdom Revealed through Results-Based Accountability, Allison Pinto, Sarasota County, Florida. http://la-casa-chica.blogspot.com/2010/04/neighborkid-wisdom-revealed-through.html
The Performance of Teachers
Pretend, for a moment, that I can split you into two people and give you two separate teaching assignments for one year. You, Version A, are given a 3rd grade class in an upper middle class neighborhood. You, Version B, are given a 3rd grade class in a poor urban neighborhood. In both cases, your job is to teach the …
Organic vs. Architectural Change
I believe the case can be made that much if not most, philanthropy in this country and around the world is highly inefficient at creating the change we want. This inefficiency derives in part from the difference between “architectural change” and “organic change” processes. Architectural change is the “design and implement” model at the heart of most government programs and …
United Way Testimonials about RBA
Many United Ways in the US and Canada are finding RBA to be a powerful way to organize community impact work, strategic planning and grantee performance accountability. Read comments from leading United Way senior staff. Check out the testimonials here.
How to Organize the Work of “Turn the Curve” Tables
A “turn the curve table” is a group of people who come together with the intention of turning one or more population indicator (or performance measurement) curves. It is a good idea for people working together in this way to have experience with the “Turn the Curve Exercise” and some grounding in RBA (either from an RBA 101 workshop, reading …
The Population Role of Education
It is often true that conversations within the Education community focus so intently on school performance improvement that it is difficult to have a conversation about the Population Accountability dimension of education. This problem is compounded by the fact that many important education measures (such as graduation rate or percent reading at grade level) double for population indicators. (See Chapter …
Shortcut Method for Choosing Population Indicators
The “regular” method presented in on pages 54 to 56 of “Trying Hard Is Not Good Enough” involves rating each potential measure “high, medium or low” on three criteria: Communication Power, Proxy Power and Data Power. A simpler method for doing this mirrors the selection steps in choosing performance measures in steps 4 and 5 of Appendix G. For each …
