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State Gas Tax Revenues and Roadway Performance… tax revenue on a state's roadway using three measures of performance: fatalities, urban congestion and pavement … State Gas Tax Revenues and Roadway Performance …
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Intradistrict Equity of Public Education Resources and Performance… and output equity of expenditures, teacher resources, and performance across 840 elementary and middle schools in New … Intradistrict Equity of Public Education Resources and Performance …
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Creating a Performance Measurement System for the Nation's Largest Public Arts Program… that has made Times Square a national icon. Building on a performance management framework developed by a 2012-2013 … Times Square Arts to fulfill its mission using a critical performance measurement system. … Creating a Performance Measurement System for the Nation's Largest …
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The Effect of Residential Mobility on Student Performance: Evidence from New York City… mobility is likely to have consequences for student performance, but prior empirical work is largely … we estimate the effects of residential mobility on the performance of New York City public school students. Using … effects, while short-distance moves improve student performance. These differential effects are partially, but …
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Age of Entry and the High School Performance of Immigrant Youth… City (NYC) public high school students to examine how the performance of students who immigrate during high school … said, their findings provide cause for concern about the performance of limited English proficient students, blacks … Age of Entry and the High School Performance of Immigrant Youth …
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Developing Key Performance Indicators for Improving Health Outcomes… engaged a Capstone team in developing a list of key performance indicators (KPIs) that measure program … Developing Key Performance Indicators for Improving Health Outcomes …
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Factors that distinguish high-performing accountable care organizations in the medicare shared savings program… OBJECTIVE: To identify factors that promote the effective performance of accountable care organizations (ACOs) in the … for patterns observed in quantitative assessment of ACO performance. DATA COLLECTION METHODS: A total of 16 ACOs were … long-standing physician leaders focused on improving performance; (4) sophisticated use of information systems; …
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School Performance and Resource Use: The Role of Districts in New York City… Elementary and Secondary Education Act rely on measures of performance to judge how well schools are educating their … function the district might have in determining school performance. Advocates for school-based budgeting and … School Performance and Resource Use: The Role of Districts in New …
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How to Show Success: Developing Performance Measures for Anti-Poverty Programs… work, the Capstone team helped create a set of performance metrics that measure the long-term benefits to … Council staff, the team examined academic literature on performance measurement, and put together a set of … How to Show Success: Developing Performance Measures for Anti-Poverty Programs …
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Do Federally Assisted Households Have Access to High Performing Public Schools?A family’s housing unit provides more than simply shelter. It also provides a set of neighborhood amenities and a package of local public services, including, most critically, a local school. Yet housing and education policymakers rarely coordinate their …
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Determinants of School Performance in New York Elementary Schools: Results and Implications for Resource Use… better understand factors that determine differences in performance/efficiency between various schools. It also … the production-function based approach to assessing school performance in New York City schools. The authors conclude … that there is no statistical way to select a school performance/efficiency measure because results can vary …
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Massachusetts Links Pay for Performance to the Reduction of Racial and Ethnic Disparities… (MassHealth) took the unusual step of linking pay-for-performance (P4P) to the reduction of racial/ethnic … Massachusetts Links Pay for Performance to the Reduction of Racial and Ethnic Disparities …
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Performance Based Grant Systems: A Comparative Analysis of Experiences in Bangladesh, Nepal and Uganda… most promising strategies for achieving this is the use of performance-based grants (PBGs). These grants introduce … success, or lack thereof, of each system in increasing the performance of local governments. Capstone team members paid special attention to the operationalization of performance measures and strategies for increasing public …
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Performance Based Grant Systems: A Comparative Analysis of Experiences in Bangladesh, Nepal and Uganda… most promising strategies for achieving this is the use of performance-based grants (PBGs). These grants introduce … success, or lack thereof, of each system in increasing the performance of local governments. Capstone team members paid special attention to the operationalization of performance measures and strategies for increasing public …
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Hospital Performance, the Local Economy, and the Local Workforce: Findings from a US National Longitudinal Study… Abstract Background: Pay-for-performance is an increasingly popular approach to improving … quality, and the US government will soon implement pay-for-performance in hospitals nationwide. Yet hospital capacity to perform (and improve performance) likely depends on local resources. In this …
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Designing flexible evaluation and performance measurement tools to communicate impact… evaluation principles. The team also developed performance measurement tools to inform organizational … Designing flexible evaluation and performance measurement tools to communicate impact …
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The Four Pillars of High Performance: How Robust Organizations Achieve Extraordinary Results… A guide to achieving and maintaining superlative performance in a highly unpredictable world, this book is the … growth opportunities. In The Four Pillars of High Performance, Light paints a portrait of the “robust … effective information technology The Four Pillars of High Performance is an indispensable and unprecedented blueprint …
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High School Size: The Effects on Budgets and Performance in New York City… Combines budget and performance information to study the effects of high school … High School Size: The Effects on Budgets and Performance in New York City …
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Redesigning Job Descriptions to Promote Stronger Performance Measurement and Management… and managers, and form the basis for developing a performance measurement and management system at CCNY. … Redesigning Job Descriptions to Promote Stronger Performance Measurement and Management …
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The Effect of the MassHealth Hospital Pay-for-Performance Program on Quality… Medicaid's (MassHealth) hospital-based pay-for-performance (P4P) program, implemented in 2008, on quality of … The Effect of the MassHealth Hospital Pay-for-Performance Program on Quality …
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Management Matters: Strengthening the Research Base to Help Improve Performance of Safety Net Providers… in health outcomes for vulnerable populations relate to performance of providers. Based on analysis of Medicaid claims records, large differences in performance among primary care providers are documented for … Matters: Strengthening the Research Base to Help Improve Performance of Safety Net Providers …
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Developing Strategies to Increase Federal Student Aid ApplicationsThe City University of New York (CUNY), America’s largest public university system, serves over a quarter million students across the five boroughs of NYC. CUNY schools provide opportunities for a diverse student body, with a large share of undergraduates …
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Use of Preventive Care Services, Beneficiary Characteristics, and Medicare HMO Performance.… The superior performance of HMOs in providing preventive care--both in the … Services, Beneficiary Characteristics, and Medicare HMO Performance. …
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Performance Measures and Dashboard Development for Targeted Medical and Health Research Association Service Programs… Yorkers. The Capstone team was charged with identifying performance measures for four targeted MHRA programs and … dashboard tool to help track overall organizational performance. In partnership with MHRA staff, the team … These indicators were analyzed and tracked using dashboard performance management tools customized for each program. …