Innovation for the public good

A few resources on innovation that you may find useful:

Two papers on funding innovation in public schooling, looking at the US Department of Ed's experience with the I3 Fund:

• Innovation for the Public Good: A Case Study of US Education
• Supporting and Scaling Change: Lessons from the first round of the Investing in Innovation Program And my final paper in the MacArthur Series on Field Building
• Evaluating Innovation

And a funny cartoon from XKCD on data standards (and the public good)