Monday, 5 February 2007

A time for action on climate change. "This report represents a leap forward in our scientific understanding. It makes it clear, more convincingly than ever before, that human actions are writ large on the changes we are seeing, and will see, to our climate." By press@royalsoc.ac.uk. [The Royal Society Press Releases] 10:50:42 PM

Conference on ‘The Economics of Teacher Quality’. ¬[sgl dagger] I ran an ANU conference today on "The Economics of Teacher Quality" If you weren't able to attend,¬here are the papers: Eric Hanushek, Stanford University The Market for Teacher Quality (with Steven Rivkin) Ken Rowe, Australian Council for Educational Research Conceptualising and Evaluating Teacher Quality: Substantive and Methodological Issues (with Lawrence Ingvarson) Chris Ryan, Australian National University How and Why has Teacher Quality Changed in Australia? (with Andrew Leigh) Gigi Foster, University of South Australia Teacher Influence on Student Performance and Selection in Broad-Spectrum Tertiary Education Hamilton Lankford, University at Albany Teacher Attrition, Teacher Effectiveness and Student Achievement (with Don Boyd, Pam Grossman, Susanna Loeb and Jim Wyckoff) Jonah Rockoff, Columbia University Predicting Effective Teaching: Evidence from New York City [Andrew Leigh] 10:42:18 PM