Monday, June 8th.
Peter R. Orszag, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director
The article emphasizes a need for more evaluation of Federal systems and Federally funded programs to determine what is "working", to gather evidence, and to introduce innovation and changes into that which is not. It also describes some new Federal pilot programs.
From the full article,
"...At one level, we need to invest more in program evaluation — and the President’s Budget does. For example, we call for an expansion of the Institute for Education Sciences and growth in the evaluation budgets at the Department of Labor and the Corporation for National and Community Service . We’re working with YouthBuild, a program the President supports, to implement its first-ever rigorous national evaluation.
Beyond investing more in evaluations, we are also designing new initiatives with evaluation standards built into their DNA. One example is the Department of Education’s "Grow What Works and Innovation Fund."..."
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