21 Posts
1:1 device initiatives, 23andMe genetic testing kit, “evidence-based” approaches, big data & healthcare, big data and the surveillance state, credit reports, Evidence based policy, FERPA, IBM Watson, Money Ball for Government, outcomes-based contracting, Pay for Success, Pay for Success and Big Data, Portland State University, RealNetworks facial recognition, Student-level data, surveillance capitalism
“A Blockchain Profile for Medicaid Applicants and Recipients.” Institute for the Future, biocryptic process, biometric data, Bitcoin, Bitcoin entrepreneur Andreas Atonopolous, Blockchain, Bloomberg’s What Works Cities, Chamber of Digital Commerce and Coin Center - Blockchain Alliance, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, datum, decentralized identifiers (DIDs used to create self-sovereign digital identities), Dr. James Heckman, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, Enigma, Evernym, a Utah-based company - digital identity solutions, Fummi, Illinois Blockchain Taskforce, Internet of Things, iris scans, JB Pritzker, MacArthur Foundation, Michael Casey, global economics professor, MIT Digital Currency Lab, Municipal ID Card / Payment Programs, Neha Nerula, Ocean Protocol, Pay for Success, refugee crisis, Santoshi Nakamoto - “Bitcoin: A Peer to Peer Electronic Cash System.”, Self Sovereign Identity, Smart contracts - benefit eligibility, un-housed - homeless, unCHAINed - refugee UI, universal basic income (UBI)
ACES (Adverse Childhood Experiences), Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Alphabet (parent company of Google), behavioral economics, big data & healthcare, Blockchain, Catalyst - New England Journal of Medicine, Center for Health Incentives & Behavioral Economics - U. Penn., Comcast, Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan of 2010, David Asch Director of the Wharton School’s Center for Health Care Innovation, digital nudges, FitBit, Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), Go365, Go365 Program, Internet of Things, IoT enabled pill bottle caps, Jennifer Mathis of the Baselon Center for Mental Health Law, Lamar Alexander, mHealth (mobile health) technologies, Michael Roizen of the Cleveland Clinic, Moneyball for Government, outcomes-based contracting, Patty Murray, Pay for Success, Richard Thaler, Senate HELP (health, education, labor and pensions) Committee, Senator Todd Young of Indiana, Sidewalk Labs, Sidewalk Labs - City Block, social impact investing, Steve Byrd - Byrd Health, Steve Byrd, former CEO of Safeway, Symbiont, The Penn Medicine integrated health system created by former UPenn president Judith Rodin & Comcast Executive David Cohen., The Rockefeller Foundation, Value Added Measure, West Virginia's Wildcat Teachers Strike
AI and education, Angela Duckworth, app-ified “solutions”, Atlantic Philanthropies, Automated Drones, “evidence-based” approaches, behavioral economics, big data and the surveillance state, Bill Gates, Blockchain, Bloomberg, Callsign (digital identity authentication), Cambridge Analytica, Cass Sunstein, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Characterlab / Grit, Choice Architects, Citi Group’s “Living Cities” program, Cornell-Technion’s Small Data Lab, criminal justice reform, Daniel Kaheneman, decentralized identifiers (DIDs used to create self-sovereign digital identities), digital exhaust, digital nudges, DISC Holdings (digital payments and credit on blockchain), Dr. James Heckman, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, e-government transactions, EA3 devices, Element (biometrics), Evan Nesterak - The Philadelphia Behavioral Science Initiative (PBSI), Goldman Sachs, Google, Google’s Eric Schmidt Data is the New Oil, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group (HCEO), Ideas42, Illinois Blockchain Taskforce, impact metrics, Institute for New Economic Thinking - George Soros, International Finance Commission (IFC), Internet of Things, John and Laura Arnold Foundation, John Arnold- Enron, Katherine Milkman, Lisa Nutter - Sidecar Social Finance, MacArthur Foundation, Michael Nutter - What Works Cities, MIT Media Lab, neoliberal practices, Nudge Unit, Obama’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, OccupyICEPHL, Pay for Success, Philadelphia District Attorney’s office - Larry Krasner, Project Trillion Billion, PTB Ventures, public pensions, Results for America, Richard Thaler, Smart Cities, social control, social impact investing, Swarthmore Professor Syon Bhanot, Tata Consulting, The Brookings Institution, UPenn’s GRASP lab, US Army Research Lab, Wharton Business School, Wharton’s Behavior Change for Good program
Americorps, austerity-rationing resources, “evidence-based” approaches, big data and the surveillance state, City Year, Class Size, Communities In Schools, interoperability, KIPP charter schools, Moneyball for Government, Pay for Performance, Pay for Success, Student Privacy, surveillance capitalism, Teach for America
America’s Edge Pennsylvania, America’s Promise, American Enterprise Institute, “evidence-based” approaches, Bill Gates, Chicago-based MacArthur Foundation, education metrics, ESSA, Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking act, Hanover Provident Capital in Alexandria, VA, Harlem Children's Zone, health outcomes metrics, John and Laura Arnold Foundation, K12 Inc., Lamar Alexander, Michael Milken, Partnership for America’s Economic Success, Patty Murray, Paul Ryan, Paul Tudor Jones, Pay for Success, Pennsylvania’s Pre-K Counts, Pew Charitable Trusts, Poverty, Pritzker, ReadyNation, Resolution Trust Corporation, Robert Dugger, financial policy analyst and venture capitalist, Sara Watson, social impact investing, Student-level data, The Brookings Institution, The New York State Early Childhood Advisory Council, the Robin Hood Foundation, Tudor Investment Corporation, Urban Institute, Virginia Early Childhood Education Foundation, Washington State Institute for Public Policy, workforce metric
“Mission Readiness", Charles Parks, Council for a Strong America, Dr. James Heckman, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, educational technology / military training, gamification, gamified assessments, Gregory Chung, JB Pritzker, Jeremy Roberts, Pay for Success, ReadyNation, UCLA CRESST, workforce development, workforce metric
Break the Ban, data dashboards, digital identity, digital identity systems linked to public assistance benefits, Dr. James Heckman, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, food insecurity, Gina Cornia of Utahans Against Hunger, Healthy eating incentive, hunger, Illinois Blockchain Taskforce, INET, Janis Dubno, neoliberal practices, Nudge - healthy choices, nutrition, outcomes-based contract, outcomes-based funding stream, Pay for Success, Pay for Success Fund, performance-based contract, Poverty, Ridge-Lane, Robert Dugger, financial policy analyst and venture capitalist, ROI - return on investment, San Francisco Federal Reserve, Smart contracts - benefit eligibility, social impact investing, The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, third grade reading scores, white supremacy
1871, a tech accelerator based in Chicago’s Merchandise Mart, Arthur Rolnick, senior researcher at the Minneapolis Federal Reserve, Becker (Milton) Friedman Institute for Economics, Buffett Early Childhood Fund, Center for the Economics of Human Capital Development, Connie Matsui - the San Diego Grantmakers, Dr. James Heckman, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, Dr. Raymond Cattell - The Big Five Theory & Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire, Education Synergy Alliance - Laura Kohn, First Five Years Fund, George Soros, High/Scope Perry Preschool Study, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group (HCEO), Institute for New Economic Thinking - George Soros, JB Pritzker, Kaiser Family Foundation, Mind + Matter Studio - Suzanne Muchin, outcomes-based contracting, Pay for Success, Penny Pritzker - Commerce Secretary in the Obama administration, Pritzker Children’s Initiative - JB Pritzker, Ready4K app, ReadyNation, Robert Dugger, financial policy analyst and venture capitalist, ROI - return on investment, Silicon Valley Community Foundation’s campaign “Choose Children”, Social Emotional Learning SEL, social impact bonds, Stephen Durlauf, professor of economics at the University of Chicago, The Heckman Equation, The Invisible Heart - documentary, Waterford Upstart online preschool, whole child - data collection
ames Heckman, University of Chicago economics professor, Arthur Rolnick, senior researcher at the Minneapolis Federal Reserve, big data and the surveillance state, Blockchain, Blockchain sovereign identity, Chicago Child-Parent Centers, Chicago Longitudinal Study, Commission on Evidence-Based Policy Making, Decentralized Identifier (DID), early childhood education, economic precocity, financialization, Goldman Sachs, high quality preschool, High/Scope Perry Preschool Study, Human Capital Performance Bonds or HuCaps, Human Capital Research Collaborative in the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Internet of Things, Investing in Kids Working Group, Milton Friedman, Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank, Minnesota Early Learning Foundation, Money Ball for Government, Northern Trust, outcomes-based contracting, Pay for Performance, Pay for Success, Pay for Success and Big Data, Pew Charitable Trusts, predictive analytics, predictive profile, Preschool, Pritzker, ReadyNation, Rob Grunewald, regional economic analyst, Robert Dugger, financial policy analyst and venture capitalist, Rothschild - "Non Non-Profit", Rothschild-Invest in Outcomes, San Francisco Federal Reserve, social impact bonds, social impact investing, The Invisible Heart - documentary, Twin Cities RISE!, WePlaySmart - smart tables
Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundaton, Common Education Data Standards, Council for a Strong America, data-driven pre-k, development impact bonds, early childhood education, Girl Scouts, Goldman Sachs, high quality preschool, KPMG, Learn Capital, Massachusetts Business Roundtable, Non-profits and NGOs, Omidyar Network, outcomes-based contracting, Pay for Success, Pre-K, Preschool, ReadyNation, San Francisco Federal Reserve, social impact bonds, Sorenson Media, The Front Project (formerly ReadyNation Australia), UNICEF, Universal PreK, World Bank - Global Education Reform
ALEC, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Career Pathways, College and Career Ready, Common Core Standards, Competency Based Learning, digital badges, ESSA, gig economy, iNACOL, K-12 LinkedIn Data Badges, National Network of Business and Industry Associations, Pay for Success, Pearson, personalized learning, The Business Round Table
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