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Prof. Rivkin Gave a Public Seminar at CERGE-EI

May 7, 2014

On April 29th, 2014 CERGE-EI and think-tank IDEA organized a special lecture with Prof. Steven Rivkin titled "Decentralization, School Leaders, and the Quality of Teaching". 

For those who missed the opportunity to attend the seminar we are bringing an online recording and speakers' presentations:

• Public seminar "Decentralization, School Leaders, and the Quality of Teaching"
• Presentation of prof. Steven Rivkin
• Presentation of Daniel Münich

Topics discussed at the event were:

• Why do principals have a big effect on the quality of teaching?
• Does decentralization elevate the importance of principals?
• When are principal evaluations of teachers effective at raising the quality of instruction?
• Why do so many evaluation systems fail to provide fair and useful ratings and information?
• Why is it so important to get principal incentives right?

Accompanying remarks were given by Daniel Münich (think-tank IDEA, CERGE-EI).