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 statement and explain your reasoning for the position you t

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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 statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.

Education is the key to a nation's success as the students of today are the pioneers of the nation's future. Therefore, it is necessary for a nation to focus on the educational development of its students. A nation that invests in its education is fundamentally investing in its future. Therefore considering these points, a nation should allocate resources in properly planning an education policy which shapes the overall development of its students. Since the early stage of human development is childhood, therefore a special focus should be made on chalking out the education plan for its students upto high school. Therefore, we can see in countries like India, China, South Korea, the goverment carefully determines the curriculum of high school classes. Specifically in India, the recent National Education Policy(NEP) has laid out the foundational work for the holistic development of its school children beginning from the primary level to the higher secondary level.

The educational policy outling the same national curriculum for its high school students has many benefits. First of all, it ensures uniformity and ensures a base level of educational competency in high school students. Secondly it allows nations to ensure that the high school curriculum includes all the necessary subjects and the curriculum of each of these subjects is in tune with the latest development in the respective fields. Thirdly it allows to eliminate any regional or individualistic biases creeping into the student's formative years. In some countries, for example India, the high school curriculum also ensures to include the specific requirements in the fields of art, sports, physical exercises, military training, performing arts, vocational training and moral education to ensure not only the mental but also the physcial, spiritual and skill development of its students.

Now one may argue that such national uniform curriculum is quite rigid and does not leav room for innovative teaching. Well, if the national curriculum is designed meticulously then this cannot be farther from the truth as the same national curriculum, in turn, provides only a base level mandatory requirements to ensure atleast a holistic fundamental developement of its students and the teachers are always encouraged to expand the boundaries of their teachings as per the need and requirements of the students. Therefore, beyond a base level development there is always breathing room for teachers and students to go above and beyond and satidy their curiosity and carry out innovation. Another argument against national curriculum is that it does not cater to the regionalistic needs of the students. Well there are instances when national curriculum implementation commitees have taken that it account by offering regional subjects such as regional languages and regional literatures etc. One glowing example of this is the nation of India which is known for its 'Unity in Diversity' incorporating all such principles to ensure its students' holistic development.

I would like to conclude by saying that a national curriculum for its high school students ensures a base level holistic developmetn and if implemented correctly can account for the regional and individualistic needs. The need of the hour is for countries to meticulously carry out the planning and implementation.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 27, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'nations'' or 'nation's'?
Suggestion: nations'; nation's
Education is the key to a nations success as the students of today are th...
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Line 1, column 286, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
... fundamentally investing in its future. Therefore considering these points, a nation shou...
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Line 3, column 454, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'eliminating'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'allow' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: eliminating
...he respective fields. Thirdly it allows to eliminate any regional or individualistic biases ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, third, thirdly, well, for example, such as, first of all

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 32.0 33.0505617978 97% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 58.6224719101 113% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 12.9106741573 155% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2839.0 2235.4752809 127% => OK
No of words: 521.0 442.535393258 118% => OK
Chars per words: 5.44913627639 5.05705443957 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.77759609229 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.04962317624 2.79657885939 109% => OK
Unique words: 235.0 215.323595506 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.451055662188 0.4932671777 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 908.1 704.065955056 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 79.6601531507 60.3974514979 132% => OK
Chars per sentence: 141.95 118.986275619 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.05 23.4991977007 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.1 5.21951772744 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.223512605212 0.243740707755 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.087215272007 0.0831039109588 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0499193045029 0.0758088955206 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.151877657053 0.150359130593 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0329867827224 0.0667264976115 49% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.3 14.1392134831 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.63 48.8420337079 75% => OK
smog_index: 13.0 7.92365168539 164% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.1743820225 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.63 12.1639044944 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.84 8.38706741573 105% => OK
difficult_words: 129.0 100.480337079 128% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.


Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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