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Listen to the pundits, and public education has a Goldilocks problem. Are teachers being overpaid, underpaid or paid just right? Few arguments in education are as contentious — or as misleading. A report released Nov. 1 by two conservative think tanks, the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation, set off fireworks with the claim that teachers are overpaid by a collective $120 billion each year and that their pensions, health care and other benefits make their total compensation 52% higher than “fair market levels.”
The report looked at a variety of factors to reach its conclusion. Some are well known issues for instance, teachers enjoy more generous benefits than most workers. But the analysis also rested on a variety of debatable assumptions about the quality of the teaching force, the job security that teachers have and opportunities for teachers in the private sector. Only by accepting all of the authors’ assumptions do you reach the eye-popping $120 billion figure.
Not surprisingly, teachers’ unions blasted the report, and conservatives saw its findings as further evidence that the unions are putting one over on the American people. Mostly lost in the back and forth was the more complex reality of teacher pay. Here are three important factors that need to be considered:

A. 어휘
pundits 박식한 대학자.
Goldilocks 영국 동화 "The Story of the Three Bears"의 여자 주인공.
contentious 논쟁적인. conservative 보수적인. think tanks 연구소.
Enterprise 기업, 진취적 정신. Institute 연구소. Heritage 세습재산, 遺産(유산).
Foundation 재단. set off 폭발시키다, 출발시키다.
fireworks 불꽃, 분노의 폭발. collective 총계, 집단의, 총체적인.
pensions 연금. benefits 혜택. compensation 보수, 給料(급료), 보상.
factors 요인. analysis 분석. rested on 이존하다. debatable 논쟁의 여지가 있는.
assumptions 假定(가정). private sector 민간 부문.
eye-popping 깜짝 놀랄만한. figure 數値(수치). blast 저주하다, 나팔 불다.
conservatives 보수주의자. evidence 증거. Mostly 대부분, 대게.