Steven Rivkin's guest appearances

Steven Rivkin

The Report Card with Nat Malkus

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Eric Hanushek

During the last decade, Dallas Independent School District overhauled its system for evaluating and compensating teachers and began a new program to attract teachers to hard-to-staff schools. The effects of these changes on student outcomes in one of our nation’s largest school districts are attention grabbing and are documented in two new papers. The first, The Effects of Comprehensive Educator Evaluation and Pay Reform on Achievement, by Eric A. Hanushek, Jin Luo, Andrew J. Morgan, Minh Nguyen, Ben Ost, Steven G. Rivkin, and Ayman Shakeel, looks at Dallas’s Principal Excellence and Teacher Excellence initiatives. And the second, Attracting and Retaining Highly Effective Educators in Hard-To-Staff Schools, by Andrew J. Morgan, Minh Nguyen, Eric A. Hanushek, Ben Ost, and Steven G. Rivkin, looks at Dallas’s Accelerating Campus Excellence Program.On this episode of The Report Card, Nat Malkus is joined by two of the papers’ authors, Eric Hanushek and Steven Rivkin, to discuss these programs. Eric Hanushek is the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and the winner of the 2021 Yidan Prize for Education Research. Steven Rivkin is the Department Head of Economics at the University of Illinois Chicago.Show Notes:The Effects of Comprehensive Educator Evaluation and Pay Reform on AchievementAttracting and Retaining Highly Effective Educators in Hard-To-Staff SchoolsDoes Regulating Entry Requirements Lead to More Effective Principals?Performance Information and Personnel Decisions in the Public Sector: The Case of School PrincipalsDynamic Effects of Teacher Turnover on the Quality of InstructionGlobal Universal Basic Skills: Current Deficits and Implications for World Development

During the last decade, Dallas Independent School District overhauled its system for evaluating and compensating teachers and began a new program to attract teachers to hard-to-staff schools. The effects of these changes on student outcomes in one of our nation’s largest school districts are attention grabbing and are documented in two new papers. The first, <a href="https://www.nber.org/papers/w31073" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">The Effects of Comprehensive Educator Evaluation and Pay Reform on Achievement</a>, by Eric A. Hanushek, Jin Luo, Andrew J. Morgan, Minh Nguyen, Ben Ost, Steven G. Rivkin, and Ayman Shakeel, looks at Dallas’s Principal Excellence and Teacher Excellence initiatives. And the second, <a href="https://www.nber.org/papers/w31051" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Attracting and Retaining Highly Effective Educators in Hard-To-Staff Schools</a>, by Andrew J. Morgan, Minh Nguyen, Eric A. Hanushek, Ben Ost, and Steven G. Rivkin, looks at Dallas’s Accelerating Campus Excellence Program.On this episode of The Report Card, <a href="https://www.aei.org/profile/nathaniel-n-malkus/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Nat Malkus</a> is joined by two of the papers’ authors, <a href="http://hanushek.stanford.edu" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Eric Hanushek</a> and <a href="https://econ.uic.edu/profiles/rivkin-steven/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Steven Rivkin</a>, to discuss these programs. Eric Hanushek is the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and the winner of the 2021 Yidan Prize for Education Research. Steven Rivkin is the Department Head of Economics at the University of Illinois Chicago.Show Notes:<a href="https://www.nber.org/papers/w31073" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">The Effects of Comprehensive Educator Evaluation and Pay Reform on Achievement</a><a href="https://www.nber.org/papers/w31051" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Attracting and Retaining Highly Effective Educators in Hard-To-Staff Schools</a><a href="https://www.edworkingpapers.com/ai23-758#:~:text=While%20principal%20effectiveness%20varies%20widely,principals%20yields%20consistently%20effective%20performance." rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Does Regulating Entry Requirements Lead to More Effective Principals?</a><a href="http://hanushek.stanford.edu/publications/performance-information-and-personnel-decisions-public-sector-case-school-principals" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Performance Information and Personnel Decisions in the Public Sector: The Case of School Principals</a><a href="https://www.nber.org/papers/w22472" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Dynamic Effects of Teacher Turnover on the Quality of Instruction</a><a href="https://www.nber.org/papers/w30566" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Global Universal Basic Skills: Current Deficits and Implications for World Development</a>