A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until college.
There is a common saying that goes "There is beauty in the symmetry". While many interpret this in the visual, beauty sense, it encompasses much of life's aspects. For instance, the homogeny of people who are all on the same page and work together. By enforcing a standard national curriculum that all students until college learn, this idea of a harmonious working class can be achieved.
This harmony comes into play when students are applying to colleges. By having a standardized curriculum, all applicants will come in with an equal playing field in terms of education. Regardless of if the student came from a poor neighborhood or an elite school, they will both have the same level of education. An equivalent level of basic information would allow more students to elevate their post-secondary expectations, as they do not need to rely on tutors, YouTube, or any external resources to compete with other students who may have access to these aids. This idea would be more illustrious with the termination of affirmative action, which helped low-class, first-generation, or minority members of society to get into post-secondary schools. This action was eliminated as it gave an unfair advantage to students based on their race, family, or other intangible factors. A national curriculum would not only help these in-need students get into colleges but also keep a competitive aspect in the registration process without any biases.
In addition to helping students who want to go into post-secondary, a national curriculum would help students who want to immediately go into the workforce. Nowadays, fewer jobs allow for a high school diploma, and a growing number of entry-level jobs that ask for a bachelor's degree or multiple years of work experience. It is unrealistic to have these expectations for an entry-level job, especially for an 18,19, or 20 year old. With a national curriculum, jobs would have a basis to judge their applicants as they would all have the same basis of knowledge coming out of high school. This would outright eliminate the need for degrees and work experience for some jobs as they already know what level of education the person has and do not need assurance like with a degree.
Some would disagree with my stance on this topic and claim that this would impede the students who want to go to prestigious schools like Harvard. They believe that a national curriculum would water down the applicants to these schools and tarnish the work that some students put in to get into these schools. This could not be further from the truth. While this curriculum would help students who want to go to low to medium level schools as they would become more competitive with a similar basis of knowledge to the other students. It would have the opposite effect for prestigious schools. This curriculum would put an even bigger emphasis on the experiences and outside of education aspects of the students. This would give an advantage for students who are actively working towards these schools as they can more readily distance themselves from the average applicant with their experiences and would tighten the criteria to get into these schools.
Enforcing a national curriculum would be one of the best things our country could do with its education system. This much-needed update to the curriculum would not only alleviate the differences between low class and high class applicants but also help students that want to go into the workforce. A national curriculum of this magnitude would help harmonize our society by giving everyone an equal fighting chance in the land of the free.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, second, so, while, for instance, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.6327345309 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 30.0 12.9520958084 232% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 17.0 11.1786427146 152% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 48.0 28.8173652695 167% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 88.0 55.5748502994 158% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3043.0 2260.96107784 135% => OK
No of words: 600.0 441.139720559 136% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.07166666667 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.94923200384 4.56307096286 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8478837172 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 261.0 204.123752495 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.435 0.468620217663 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 945.0 705.55239521 134% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 4.96107784431 282% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.67365269461 299% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 19.7664670659 132% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.9838267661 57.8364921388 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.038461538 119.503703932 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0769230769 23.324526521 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.73076923077 5.70786347227 48% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 8.20758483034 195% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.191734204315 0.218282227539 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0682882379545 0.0743258471296 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0740832076912 0.0701772020484 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.14258245013 0.128457276422 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0460550496395 0.0628817314937 73% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 14.3799401198 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.01 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 123.0 98.500998004 125% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 12.3882235529 57% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 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.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, second, so, while, for instance, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.6327345309 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 30.0 12.9520958084 232% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 17.0 11.1786427146 152% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 48.0 28.8173652695 167% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 88.0 55.5748502994 158% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3043.0 2260.96107784 135% => OK
No of words: 600.0 441.139720559 136% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.07166666667 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.94923200384 4.56307096286 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8478837172 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 261.0 204.123752495 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.435 0.468620217663 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 945.0 705.55239521 134% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 4.96107784431 282% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.67365269461 299% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 19.7664670659 132% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.9838267661 57.8364921388 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.038461538 119.503703932 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0769230769 23.324526521 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.73076923077 5.70786347227 48% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 8.20758483034 195% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.191734204315 0.218282227539 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0682882379545 0.0743258471296 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0740832076912 0.0701772020484 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.14258245013 0.128457276422 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0460550496395 0.0628817314937 73% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 14.3799401198 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.01 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 123.0 98.500998004 125% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 12.3882235529 57% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 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.