Instructions: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Input: As usual, the politics of education lately seem like they’re all about the grown-ups. Teachers unions hope their walkouts in states like Arizona, Kentucky and Oklahoma will turn red states blue in 2018, while others foresee a backlash against double-digit pay raises for public employees. But behind the political machinations are deeply held views about teacher compensation. 
  
 For liberals, higher pay is a matter of social justice. Teachers make less than most other college graduates, reflecting the low status society affords... |||||  
  
 According to the most recent population survey released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor, the teaching gender gap is still alive and well. Male educators constitute just 2.3% of pre-K and kindergarten teachers, 18.3% of the elementary and middle school teacher population, and 42% of the high school level teaching staff. These numbers are down from 2007, but suggest a clear female majority in the teaching profession, especially in the earlier grades. 
  
 So why are male teachers still few-and-far-between in the United States? According to expert analysis, the most readily apparent answer is that sexism and status deter men from entering the teaching field. 
  
  
  
 Girls have increasingly been encouraged to engage in typically male-dominated fields, like math and science in recent years, but boys have been given almost no incentive to engage in female-dominated professions, like education. As pointed out by Robert M. Cappuozzo, an early childhood education professor at the University of Alaska-Anchorage, “We don’t give boys the same opportunities that we give girls.” Because of this discrepancy, boys might be disinclined to consider a career in teaching. 
  
  
  
 There’s also a disappointing stigma attached to male teachers who teach the earlier grades. According to Jeffrey M. Daitsman, a researcher at the Center for Practitioner Researcher at National-Louis University, male teachers responsible for younger students are accused of being “not masculine.” The stereotype encourages the thinking that, because male teachers are supposed to be disciplinarians, male teachers are “not masculine” for wanting to teach younger children who are not often heavily disciplined. 
  
  
  
 In addition to sexism, men are often deterred from teaching because of the pay associated with being an educator. Many men feel the traditional pressure of being the “breadwinner,” and teaching is not known for being a lucrative profession. Bryan G. Nelson, the head of the Minneapolis-based nonprofit, MenTeach, says, “If we started paying elementary teachers $150,000 a year, we’d see a massive influx of male teachers.” 
  
  
  
 Further, as the call for education reform grows louder, teaching is proving to a very challenging profession. From the stress of implementing new policies, to the continued pressure of competition and accountability, teaching is not a job for the faint of heart. 
  
  
  
 Teachers, why do you think about the widening of the gender-gap among teachers? Why aren’t there more male teachers? What should be done to remedy this problem? Comment below. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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Robert Maranto thinks public school teachers should be paid more—up to 40% more, in fact. But they'll have to work for it, he writes in an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal, because "you can't get something for nothing." Maranto talks about differing viewpoints on teacher pay: liberals think this woman-dominated field remains underpaid, populists think teachers do just fine as is with their pensions and working conditions, and a third group thinks wages should only be raised for certain teachers in specialized subjects or low-income areas, where there are teacher shortages. But Maranto thinks all of these philosophies are "inadequate," and he instead lobbies for greater pay—"but only in exchange for real reforms to improve teacher quality." By his measure, higher pay means a 40% raise that would put teachers' wages (currently at a median $58,000) above that of accountants ($68,000) and on par with civil engineers ($84,000), which would attract "brainy people" who might otherwise go to college for more lucrative careers. But Maranto thinks that teacher certification should be more rigid and that schools should be more easily able to fire low-performing teachers—"just as medical practices and law firms can fire ineffective doctors and lawyers." He acknowledges teacher unions won't be happy about that, and there's always the fear of rogue principals firing away at will, but he offers a gentle reminder: "Nearly all principals are former teachers. Recruiting better teachers will result in better principals down the road." More from Maranto here. (Foreign workers are filling the teacher slots Americans won't accept.)