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10 May 2010Three leading economists discussed the evidence for how education quality drives economic growth. They also reviewed the evidence that the most important policy interventions are to improve teacher quality rather than school building improvements or class size reductions.

The panel consisted of Colm Harmon, Director of the Geary Institute; Saul Eslake, Program Director Productivity Growth, Grattan Institute and Ben Jensen, Program Director School Education, Grattan Institute provided in in depth look at the above issues.

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