RSSS Theme events for February 2007

Mon 5 Feb: 8.30am-5.00pm, Innovations Building Theatre
Conference on
'The Economics of Teacher Quality'

Speakers include:
Eric Hanushek (Stanford),
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 (ANU),
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 (Albany),
Teacher Attrition, Teacher Effectiveness and Student Achievement
(with Don Boyd, Pam Grossman, Susanna Loeb and Jim Wyckoff)

Jonah Rockoff (Columbia)
Predicting Effective Teaching: Evidence from New York City

contact AndrewDOTLeighATanuDOTeduDOTau

Wed 14 Feb: 9am-1pm, Coombs Seminar Room B
Workshop on 'Deliberative Democracy & Preference Transformation'

Speakers include John Dryzek (ANU), Simon Niemeyer (ANU), Claudia Landwehr (Hamburg), Kasper M¿ller Hansen (Copenhagen)

(with related seminars by: Landwehr 13 Feb, 12.30-2pm, Coombs Seminar Room F: Hansen 19 Feb, 12.30-2pm, Coombs Seminar Room D; and Hansen, 26 Mar, 12.30-2pm, Coombs Seminar Room D)

contact Bob.Goodin@anu.edu.au

Mon 26 Feb, 2-5pm, Menzies Library McDonald Room
Workshop on 'The Australian Census: History versus Privacy'

Speakers Terry Hull (ANU), Kim Rubenstein (ANU) and a representative from the Australian Bureau of Statistics

contact Tim.Rowse@anu.edu.au

Mark your diaries: this year's major Theme Conference will be

12-14 Dec 2007
'Governing by Looking Back: How History Matters in Society, Politics and Government'

for further details, see the call for papers

contact Paul.Hart@anu.edu.au

or Tim.Rowse@anu.edu.au