A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college.
Recent studies have shown, that in order to make all different kinds of high school diplomas comparable, colleges rely more and more on standardized tests. For some people these circumstances have risen the question whether all students should study the same national curriculum until they enter college. With some minor qualifications, this seems reasonable for two reasons.
First, college admission would become more objective and fair for students. For instance, Germany is in need of sixteen different ministries of education due to its federal laws. As a direct result of this, each ministry promotes a slightly different curriculum for its educational institutions which, in the end, however, result in the 'same' high school diploma. Notwithstanding the fact that there are several different curricula and therefore a lot of different levels of education, universities are forced by law that the overall high school score is their only criterium for admission. If, however, a student who would have scored an extremely high score in one state, due to its 'easier' curriculum scores just mediocre in another state, this fact is not taken into account. However, all kinds of high school diplomas are treated the same, regardless of their level of curriculum. Students from states with more complex demands set for them in their curriculum are therefore highly disadvantaged. A national curriculum would prevent that discrepancy.
Second, a nationalized curriculum would save a significant amount of taxpayers' money. For instance, while a country like France, which boasts a national curriculum for its students only has to pay for one education caucus consisting of experts and politicians, countries with a more diverse curriculum have to maintain several of those expert groups - one for each curriculum. Although they are all doing roughly the same, their outputs are not merged as each caucus is only responsible for its curriculum. If again we look at the example of Germany consisting of sixteen different states, each of these states has a group dedicated to taking care of the state-wide curriculum. As a direct result of the introduction of a nationalized curriculum countries would immediately be able to get rid of those then unnecessary double or triple structures. One effect of this would be that a substantial amount of money could be saved and for example reinvested in the educational program or other state institutions.
However, measures should be taken to prevent a national curriculum from getting misused as means of propaganda. A nationalized curriculum makes it comparably easy for regimes like North Korea to assure that only those facts of interest to the political regime are being thought in high school as only one curriculum has to be controlled by the political leaders. It is, therefore, reasonable to create some kind of independent ethics committee creating and altering such a national curriculum.
To conclude, for the reasons stated above it seems highly reasonable to introduce at least some kind of national curriculum as the advantages of doing so clearly outweigh the disadvantages.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 204, Rule ID: WHETHER[5]
Message: Can you shorten this phrase to just 'whether', or rephrase the sentence to avoid "the question"?
Suggestion: whether
...e people these circumstances have risen the question whether all students should study the same nati...
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Line 3, column 404, Rule ID: NUMEROUS_DIFFERENT[1]
Message: Use simply 'several'.
Suggestion: several
...Notwithstanding the fact that there are several different curricula and therefore a lot of differ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, look, second, so, then, therefore, while, as to, at least, for example, for instance, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 14.8657303371 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 31.0 33.0505617978 94% => OK
Preposition: 64.0 58.6224719101 109% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2644.0 2235.4752809 118% => OK
No of words: 494.0 442.535393258 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.35222672065 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.71445763274 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9941724851 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 245.0 215.323595506 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.495951417004 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 848.7 704.065955056 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.2453677973 60.3974514979 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.904761905 118.986275619 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5238095238 23.4991977007 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.38095238095 5.21951772744 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.306363549548 0.243740707755 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.106412701376 0.0831039109588 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0983536705348 0.0758088955206 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.18792508589 0.150359130593 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0770835193819 0.0667264976115 116% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 14.1392134831 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.8420337079 81% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.05 12.1639044944 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.71 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 123.0 100.480337079 122% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => 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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