>because I'm not writing a check for something I can't measure. This is interesting. My first response is that not everything of value can be measured [1], bu

>because I'm not writing a check for something I can't measure. This is interesting. My first response is that not everything of value can be measured [1], but then I thought better of it and realized there probably are ways to measure everything of value [2], they're just not easy, obvious, or intuitive, and the odds of convincing a national educational bureaucracy that does things as much for appearance and expedience as effectiveness are probably not great. [1]: http://blogs.hbr.org/davenport/2010/10/what_cant_be_measured.html http://blogs.hbr.org/davenport/2010/10/what_cant_be_measured... [2]: http://www.amazon.com/How-Measure-Anything-Intangibles-Business/dp/0470539399 http://www.amazon.com/How-Measure-Anything-Intangibles-Busin...