FirstEval-Melissa Kovacs

Month: May 2010

Measuring Social Change and the Two-Minute Volunteer

I recently have been reading a great journal, the Stanford Social Innovation Review.  The Summer 2010 volume has a piece on the tricky task of measuring social value by Geoff Mulgan.  The first step is defining social value, however.  Mulgan (former policy director under UK Prime Minister Tony Blair) argues that when we assume that …

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College Readiness

  Yesterday I attended the presentation from Dr. David Garcia, “Why are Fewer Maricopa County High School Graduates Ready for College-Level Coursework?” hosted by the Arizona Community Foundation in partnership with Arizona Indicators.  Dr. Garcia and his students measured college readiness as taking a college-level course in college, freshman or sophomore year; specifically, math and …

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