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From an economics perspective, it's kinda insane that teachers are paid so poorly, since they are such force multipliers. A single brilliant teacher can positively influence the future educational trajectory (and future earnings) of thousands of kids. Investing in making that happen more often seems like it would have great dividends.

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The problem, in the US, anyway, is more that either they can't be paid differently or that the bad ones can't be fired and the new ones paid more and held to higher standards. The cost per student is already quite high.

Nations like Finland and Poland have figured out how to make that change and seen their students flourish; hopefully we will too.