Sociology 150gm - Final take-home Paper 3

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Problems in the Education System Today
There are several challenges which are facing students but for the purpose of this assignment I will discuss on the main three problems experienced in the education systems today in Los Angeles. Although there is significant amount which is spent every year in education there is little of it which is used to evaluate on the performances of teachers and get to know those who are more effective than others. It has been noted that students in different classes are being taught the same lessons over the same time frame but by the end of the years some of them who were performing well are much far behind in terms of skills gained over the period. The difference has been mistakenly being attributed to the class size, parents or even the students themselves but the fact is that it`s their teachers who mainly contribute to their performance decline (Song and Felch Par, 6).
It is evident that most districts operate as if all teachers are good equal to their capabilities but this is not the case there are huge disparities among teachers. Therefore most teachers who are more effective are not identified and understand the reason for their success to be adopted by others who are not effective (Sternheimer, Par 5). Such research should be done with an aim of improving the teaching standards. This claim is supported by evidence after Los Angeles Times did research on test scores for mathematics and English over a period of seven years. Which got evidence that; teachers who are highly effective they are able to propel students with low grade to score high marks within a year, it also proved that 8000 students landed into a classroom with poorest performing teachers in math`s and English at least twice in a row which did affect their grade.
Another major problem is the assumption that value added evaluation which makes students score high marks in test are as a result of teaching. This is not true because test scores are influenced by many factors. For example teachers can generate high score...