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Nowadays few reformers talk about banning independent schools. Instead they look at fiddling with university admissions. Sadly the methods of most left-leaning educators say much more about their own outdated preoccupations than about the problem. In America tragically the focus has been on race and affirmative-action programmesa system the private schools have duly exploited by giving scholarships to poor black and Hispanic pupils. In Britain the obsession has been class, with Labour ministers telling the dons of Oxford to find more working-class talent, and setting up a government "Office for Fair Access" (widely known as OffToff) to set targets, albeit non-binding ones, for the proportion of state-school applicants at each university.
There are some areas where universities could be reined innotably America's system of favouring the children of alumni. But admissions are a symptom, not a cause. Black Americans and working-class Britons struggle because they are overwhelmingly educated in poor government-run schools. Change them and you change the system. And here the private elite schools are useful exemplars. Their success is not based on money, but on organisation. Make head teachers at state schools as accountable to parents as their peers at private schools are and give them the same freedoms, notably to sack poor teachers and pay more to good ones. Then people will not need to go to Winchester or Amherst any more.

A. 어휘
reformer 개혁가. ban 금지하다.
independent school 교육청(교육부)으로부터 일체의 간섭을 받지 않는 학교.
fiddle with 만지작거리다, 빈둥거리다. admission 입학허가.
left-leaning 左傾的(좌경적)인. outdated 시대에 뒤진.
preoccupation 편견, 선입관, 偏向(편향), 先取權(선취권). race 인종.
affirmative-action 긍정적인 행동. duly 정당하게, 적절하게. exploit 이용하다.
Hispanic 미국의 라틴 아메리카계 주민. pupil 학생.
obsession 달라붙어서 떠나지 않는 관념(고질적인 문제), 妄想(망상), 강박관념.
class 계급, 계층. Labour ministers 영국 노동당정부 장관들.
Office for Fair Access 공정입학담당 廳(청). albeit ...에도 불구하고.
non-binding 강제적이 아닌, 의무적이 아닌. applicant 지원자, 신청자.
rein in 고삐로 제지하다, 억제하다. notably 두드러지게, 명백하게.
alumni 同窓(동창). symptom 징후, 症狀(증상). overwhelmingly 압도적으로.
exemplar 본보기, 例(예). head teacher 校長(교장). accountable 책임지다.
sack 파면시키다. peer 동갑내기, 동료.

B. 구문
- Make head teachers at state schools . . . at private schools are .
[공립학교 교장도 사립학교 교장만큼 학부모에게 책임을 지게 하라.]