(CNN) Twenty-five years ago, teaching public school was a pretty attractive gig. Teachers got to help mold young minds. And they were paid roughly as much as their counterparts in similar professions. "Are we really getting our best and our brightest to be teachers anymore in this scenario?" says Sylvia Allegretto, an economist at the Economist Policy Institute who analyzes teacher pay gaps.

Source: CNN April 27, 2018 13:07 UTC