"A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college."
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
I agree to a certain extent with this recommendation. The statement of my agreement is qualified with 'to a certain extent' for the two following reasons. Firstly, I believe in allowing some latitude with regards to choice of coursework for students. And secondly, I agree with the recommendation only to the extent that the national curriculum includes core subjects such as math, humanities, and science. But overall, I do believe that a largely standardized curriculum at the national level is desirable.
Firstly, requiring students to study the same national curriculum greatly increases the chances that they will be introduced to a variety of subjects--some of which they may ultimately wish to further pursue. Ensuring that students have been exposed to a multitude of subjects ensures that their choice in college-major will be well-informed. A student might choose to not major in mathematics because she had little-to-no exposure to the subject at the k-12 level. However, she might have a passion for mathematics that would have been discovered had she had such an exposure.
Secondly, requiring students to study the same core subjects in mathematics, science, and the humanities ensures that students will be well-prepared to engage in higher learning in whatever field they choose to study at the college-level. A student might ultimately plump for a major which has little-to-nothing to do with some subjects for which they were required to do extensive studying at the k-12 level; however, many subjects require knowledge from other fields. For example, the sciences--from sociology to theoretical physics--require knowledge in mathematics.
Thirdly, giving student some latitude to explore their passion--even in high school, will ultimately do them good. Many students ultimately plump for the subjects they were most passionate about in high school. So, ensuring that they have greater exposure to these fields during high school will allow them to explore these greater depth in college, since they already had much exposure to these subjects in high school.
For the foregoing three reasons, I agree to a certain extent with the recommendation. However, I must re-emphasize the caveat alluded to in the first paragraph: I agree with the recommendation only to the extent that a national curriculum includes core subjects such as math, humanities, and science.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, well, for example, of course, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 19.5258426966 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 14.8657303371 34% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 33.0505617978 106% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 58.6224719101 99% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2020.0 2235.4752809 90% => OK
No of words: 372.0 442.535393258 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.43010752688 5.05705443957 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.39173103935 4.55969084622 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.18103336853 2.79657885939 114% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 215.323595506 76% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.440860215054 0.4932671777 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 624.6 704.065955056 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.2370786517 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.5389292349 60.3974514979 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.823529412 118.986275619 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8823529412 23.4991977007 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.70588235294 5.21951772744 128% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 5.13820224719 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.196253811476 0.243740707755 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0741547276092 0.0831039109588 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0571118557868 0.0758088955206 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.121502385887 0.150359130593 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0405496113217 0.0667264976115 61% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 14.1392134831 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 48.8420337079 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.21 12.1639044944 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.24 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 100.480337079 84% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.