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Bottom line: Saying teachers are systematically overpaid or persistently underpaid not only obscures the reality of the education landscape, it ignores a key lever that policymakers could be using to improve teacher effectiveness, i.e., paying the good ones more. Today, as a country, we don’t have the teaching force we need. Although raising salaries won’t fully offset problems like lousy working conditions or inept management that repel many would-be teachers, pay is obviously one important tool to attract and retain great teachers.
So from where I sit, we should pay teachers more but we should also pay them differently. Linking those two issues seems the best way through the current logjam.

A. 어휘
persistently 지속적으로. obscure 덮어 감추다, 흐리게 하다.
landscape 조망, 전망, 풍경. ignores 무시하다.
effectiveness 효과적인 것. offset 相殺(상쇄)하다, 차감하다.
lousy 이가 많은, 불결한. inept 부적절한, 얼빠진. repel 쫓아 버리다.
obviously 명백히. retain 유지하다, 고용해 두다. logjam 봉쇄.