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Grayson Cooper

Grayson is a Senior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, pursuing a Interdisciplinary Studies major on Educational Entrepreneurship. His interest in education stems from teaching experiences, through both a self-initiated program at a local community college and Summerbridge Pittsburgh. The motivation and achievement h...

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Charters Need to Rediscover Purpose

Charter schools have not achieved their purpose of innovating and improving education, but a few have demonstrated collaboration with public school districts to overcome persistent challenges.

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Grayson Cooper Daniel's comment and reference below may be helpful "Greater racial and economic segregation (http://ow.ly/7Fow6)" I'm not aware of any studies using NC EOG data off the top of my head. However, not much has changed in NC'...

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Where Should Government Invest? How About Early Education

High-quality, intensive early childhood education can return $7 to $14 on every $1 invested.

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The False Choice of School Choice

School choice is insufficient to close the achievement gap, and obscures the root problem of inadequate educational opportunities.

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Grayson Cooper Yes, but I haven't seen any examples of schools becoming more responsive to demands within due to choice between them (if you can find a counter example, please let me know!) I agree that competition improves the condition of systems, when ...

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U.S. Receives an "F" With No Child Left Behind

America's education system significantly lags behind other nations, and U.S. graduates will only have a harder time competing for jobs with their international peers.

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Grayson Cooper "It is definitely not a money issue; the amount spent per student from Kindergarten through 12th grade is $129,000 compared to other countries’ averaging only $95,000." Really? Education is labor intensive, and surely labor costs are not ...

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Teenage Labor Isn't Worth the Minimum Wage
Teenage Labor Isn't Worth the Minimum Wage

More young people would be able to get jobs if the minimum wage were reduced.

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Grayson Cooper I completely agree, but to play devil's advocate (and to anyone who has read Freakonomics), people will take lower paying jobs if they perceive the opportunity to achieve a more lucrative position. Hairdressers and drug dealers alike.

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Want to Prevent College Sports Scandals? Pay the Players
Want to Prevent College Sports Scandals? Pay the Players

To reform college athletics, the NCAA should pursue the simple strategy of paying big sport athletes.

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Grayson Cooper This all sounds good, was just playing devil's advocate

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National Standards Are a Step In The Right Direction
National Standards Are a Step In The Right Direction

Although not a panacea, national education standards would help fix the education system.

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Grayson Cooper To add to Susan, these tests are rarely validated for teacher evaluation, and often their publishers recommend against their use as such. (i.e. DC-CAS) So, we have 1) accountability for the student, 2) accountability for the teacher. This piece s...

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Keep It Local
Keep It Local

Schools that are controlled locally have more incentive to be effective and efficient.

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Grayson Cooper As an example, look at municipal exclusion, minority communities which do not receive public services, like trash or water/sewer. Also, some real-estate markets (ie. upper-middle class) are more responsive to school quality partly due to their increa...

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3 Ways The Federal Government Must Guide Education
3 Ways The Federal Government Must Guide Education

Historically, education has been viewed as a state right, but this issue must be addressed nationally.

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Grayson Cooper I really don't understand how federalizing education would solve unions and seniority. And discrimination and funding issues could be addressed just as easily by the state. Within-State variances in funding are greater than state-to-state. ...

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