Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

MARCH 28, 2016

Can regular, detailed information sent to parents about their students’ progress lead to improved student achievement? That question was put to the test by in a field experiment in the Los Angeles school system in which parents were given information by text, phone or email about their children’s missing assignments. The results for high school students show surprisingly large effects and suggest that this type of relatively low cost intervention may have effects on student achieveme

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Data.gov

MARCH 4, 2016

The 2016 Open Data Roundtables The Open Data Roundtables were gatherings to identify case studies, lessons learned, and best practices in open data across the Federal government. PURPOSE The Roundtables supported the Federal goal to responsibly unleash government data for the … Continued. The post Open Data Roundtables appeared first on Data.gov.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

MARCH 24, 2016

Today, results-focused cities are using data to improve city services, boost the quality of life, and literally save lives. The City of Las Vegas has gained a reputation for its data-focused approach to addressing important city challenges. A good example is its effort to reduce traffic accidents, first by focusing on reducing left turn crashes and later by focusing on the 50 most dangerous intersections.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

MARCH 18, 2016

The City of New Orleans under Mayor Mitch Landrieu has gained a reputation as being one of the most innovative and data-driven city governments. An important element in those efforts is the Office of Performance and Accountability, launched in 2011. The mission of the office is to use data to set goals, track performance, and drive results across city government.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

MARCH 15, 2016

In the U.S., more than a third of elderly patients discharged from hospitals are re-admitted within 90 days, often needlessly. An intervention that is helping change that is the nursing-led Transitional Care Model (TCM), pioneered at the University of Pennsylvania. It been the focus of four large scale NIH-funded clinical trials, including three RCTs, all finding consistent positive health and economic effects, including reduced re-hospitalization and health care expenditures.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

MARCH 8, 2016

Addressing the nation’s — and the world’s — biggest challenges will require learning and doing what works. A powerful tool for doing that is the randomized evaluation, also known as a randomized control trial (RCT). It is a tool that is increasingly being used in the U.S. and around the world. Well-designed and well-implemented RCTs can provide strong evidence about what works — not only whether a program works or not, but also which strategies within a program or p

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