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In Politics, Does Evidence Matter?
December 7, 2014By E.J. Dionne Jr. …The Haskins-Margolis effort comes in the wake of “Moneyball for Government,” a book whose title is a play on Billy Beane’s approach to… Read more »
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Continuous Learning Is Key to Achieving Better Outcomes
December 2, 2014By Kirsten Lodal, CEO and Co-Founder, LIFT, and Dan Cardinali, President, Communities in Schools To address complex social challenges, we need to figure out what… Read more »
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New Moneyball for Government Video Shows Why “Continuous Learning” Leads to Better Outcomes
December 2, 2014The Moneyball for Government campaign today released the third installment in a video series highlighting the benefits of investing in what works. This latest video… Read more »
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Moneyball for Government Video Series
December 2, 2014“Moneyball for Government Part 3: Continuous Learning” The third video in the Moneyball for Government Series, “Continuous Learning,” narrated by Melody Barnes, former Director of the… Read more »
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Show Me the Evidence
December 1, 2014Four Moneyball for Government authors featured in Brookings Institution event “Show Me the Evidence: Obama’s Fight for Rigor and Results in Social Policy.” Watch Ron Haskins, Peter… Read more »
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Performance Data: The Next Steps in Moneyball Government
December 1, 2014By John Kamensky Moneyball for Government Released in mid-November, this book is a compilation of essays by a high-level bipartisan group of advocates for evidence-based decision-making, under… Read more »
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Using a Numbers-Based Approach to End Political Gridlock in “Moneyball for Government”
November 27, 2014Numbers and politics are the focus of Moneyball for Government, a new book written by a bipartisan group of authors. Gwen Ifill interviews two of… Read more »
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What Baseball can Teach Government
November 25, 2014By G. T. Bynum & Preston Doerflinger The baseball book and movie “Moneyball” have a great scene about management evaluating prospective players for the Oakland Athletics’… Read more »
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Moneyball for Government featured on CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper
November 19, 2014Two authors from the book Moneyball for Government U.S. Senators Kelly Ayotte and Mark Warner on CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper explaining why government… Read more »
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“A Call to Play Ball” Excerpt from Moneyball for Government
November 11, 2014By U.S. Senator’s Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) and Mark Warner (D-VA) We started this book with a description of an impressive winning streak—the longest in the… Read more »