Performance Funding (guess what? it doesn’t work)

heikeIt’s all the buzz.  Just say the words and the Gates Foundation will give you money.  Say them twice and you’ll have some legislators swooning over you.  Look at the Vision Project and it’s all about funding campuses according to how well they do at meeting certain goals.  But check out this important new study that says it doesn’t work!  See PHENOM’s own critique – 3 reasons why this is not the right way to fund our colleges and universities (see pages 3-4).