1. JFK Inaugrural Address

2. It is 1961, you are the newly elected president, and it is your 1st day in the oval office. How would you respond to poverty, immigration, or illiteracy?

4. A key performance indicator (KPI) is: A measurement of activity (often referred to as a metric) that reveals how a program, individual, business, or team is performing against its goals.
KPIs are the most critical metrics that measure the success of specific activities used to meet goals - measured against a specific target or benchmark, adding context to each activity being measured.

5. Review- Ideally, indicators should inform decision-making:
• Conceptual use for enlightenment – indicators can be used as a tool to illustrate concepts, helping to change the understanding of an issue
• Instrumental – finally, they can disclose a direct relationship between indicators and decision outcomes. For example, they can be used to measure the impact of certain decisions, and when used to measure effectiveness, they can be instrumental in changing policies.

6. Review- Questions to be asked when Evaluating a policy program
What are the conditions that led up to the policy?
What are the goals and intentions of the policy?
Are there specific or quantifiable goals?
What data could you collect that directly or indirectly measures the performance of the goal, what areas should the policy impact, KPI’s ?
What were the long-term effects of consequences of the policy

7. Review- Line Graph Interpretation

13. Percentage of persons 14 years old and over who were illiterate (unable to read or write in any language), by race and nativity: 1870 to 1979
Year Total White Black and other
Total Native Foreign-born
– – 79.9
– – 11.0
– – – –
– – 10.2
– – 7.5
– – 3.6 *
– – 1.6 *

14. In the three decades following passage of the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, more than 18 million legal immigrants entered the United States, more than three times the number admitted over the preceding 30 years.

23. People Displaced by Urban renewal 1955-1966