In my former life, I worked in IT. We had to do performance reviews, and we had measurable targets that we could actually...concrete numerical data. I mean, basically you wanted to improve on your performance. You wanted to do this and that, and after the year we could actually go back and see whether we met those targets.
I'm trying to figure out what metrics are used to determine if a program was successful. I know you could say that teachers have said they stay in school, and so on, but what were the actual targets from the start of the project to the finish? Were there actual targets in place, and how do we know that, long term, it has actually worked?