Central Ranges LLEN CEO Library

Monday, 5 February 2007

PM 'considering' carbon trading, rules out tax. Prime Minister John Howard says he is considering how Australia could participate in a carbon trading scheme, but he does not support a carbon tax. [ABC News: Breaking Stories]
10:48:16 PM

Australia's impending copyright laws. PODCAST [apple] Professor Brian Fitzgerald from Griffith University Law School and the IIA's Peter Coroneos discuss the implications of Australia's new copyright laws. [Creative Economy : Topic Articles]
10:46:55 PM

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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