by CivicMeter Staff | Dec 4, 2017 | Program Evaluation, Uncategorized
Seeking a more “scientific and data-driven” approach to teen pregnancy, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has brought in private research firms Mathematica Policy Research and RTI International . The two research firms will be part of a $10 million...
by CivicMeter Staff | Dec 4, 2017 | Program Evaluation, Sub Featured C
Virginia may de-emphasize the weight of standardized test scores in school evaluation starting in the 2018-19 school year. The Virginia State Board of Education has voted 8-1 to overhaul the school accreditation system, which will now include non-academic measurements...
by CivicMeter Staff | Dec 4, 2017 | Featured, Program Evaluation
College libraries have been natural repositories of data for thousands of years. Now in the Digital Age, libraries have extended their function as the aggregator and curator of digital information. Libraries at universities around the country are using data to measure...
by CivicMeter Staff | Dec 4, 2017 | Government IT, Uncategorized
Convenient. Accessible. Secure. These adjectives describe an ideal website. But the websites of federal government agencies are far from ideal. A recent report by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) indicates that a great majority of the...
by CivicMeter Staff | Dec 4, 2017 | Civic Data & Tech, Uncategorized
Problem: Municipal data governed by a dizzying assortment of standards, released in a Babel of formats. Solution: An international open standards directory that will guide researchers on the proper format for releasing their data. [See it here.] Andrew Nicklin,...
by CivicMeter Staff | Nov 10, 2017 | Civic Data & Tech, Government IT
The answers to the important questions of budget allocation and performance monitoring in local governments are here, but they are hidden in the unruly thicket of data that grows ever larger by the moment. Too many trees too close together can obscure the view of the...
