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14 Oct 09

Technology Review: Blogs: Predictably Irrational: A Fictional historic view of the future

  • this painful and expensive lesson caused businesses and policy makers to recognize three main lessons: 1) human beings have many irrational tendencies, fallibilities, and quirks; 2) we often have bad intuitions and a limited understanding of our irrational tendencies and; 3) if we want to create effective policies we shouldn’t rely on our intuitions for finding recommendations nor on the assumption that people behave rationally; instead, we should ground our recommendations in how people actually behave.
  • After a few years spent watching in awe as business productivity improved,  government policymakers followed suit by implementing experiments with the Education-Forward Initiative (formerly No Child Left Behind). These experiments showed that basing teachers’ salaries on student performances had minor short-term benefits and caused substantial long-term damage on teacher and student motivation; that creating interest in education was more important than grades; and that shifting the curriculum focus from calculus to statistics and probability had a wonderful impact on students.
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27 Sep 09

Human-centered Design « Service Design Research

  • UK Sunningdale Institute at the National School of Government (Engagement and Aspiration: Reconnecting Policy Making with Front Line Professionals
20 Sep 09

Child welfare: The nanny state | The Economist

  • Some kinds of spending on children do work, but many should be improved or scrapped. No country gets it all right, though some (like the Nordic ones) do better in general than others (notably, America). Government spending per child varies a lot, as do outcomes; but the correlation is not strong.
22 Jul 09

live|work: Haringey Borough Council

  • Haringey Borough Council in North London faces a severe homelessness challenge. Over 5,000 households currently live in Temporary Accommodation, mainly in homes leased from private landlords. The Council wants to reduce this number by half by 2011.
  • Haringey also wants to improve the services it offers to people while they are in Temporary Accommodation, ensuring residents know about, understand and make use of the options available to them; including encouraging them to bid for permanent homes using the Council’s choice-based lettings service.
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14 Jul 09

BBC NEWS | Health | 'Care insurance' planned for old

  • Under the present English system anyone with a home or savings of £23,500 or more is not given state funding for a care home, or help from social services.

    This means that thousands of pensioners each year have to sell their homes or use their savings to fund their long-term care, which critics say is unfair and unsustainable.

  • A range of payment options is likely to be set out, including deducting a single payment from the patient's estate after their death, or making several payments in advance during their working life.
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12 May 09

Steve Rayner: Take Climate Change Seriously

  • The only plausible way to curb emissions in the next few decades is to accelerate the development and adoption of low-carbon energy sources. Rather than setting targets for greenhouse gases, we should establish goals for installed technology, beginning with the most energy-intensive sectors, like electricity generation, ground transportation, and cement manufacturing.
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