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 recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.
The author recommends that a nation should mandate that every student should study the same national curriculum before they go to college; however, I disagree with this recommendation. I disagree for three reasons: 1) every student's needs and interests are different 2) educators may become complacent and 3) results may not accurately reflect a student/teacher's ability if answers are leaked.
Firstly, a nation shouldn't mandate students study the same curriculum since every student has different needs and interests - what may work for one student may not work for another student. A math-inclined student may thrive in the math section at the beginning but may feel limited when the student is unable to pursue those interests further. The same student, however, may suffer in English literature where the national curriculum may be too fast paced; this may result in the student falling behind unnecessarily. For this reason, a nation should not have a mandated national curriculum before university. If the country implements this national curriculum, the math student may be left behind when it comes to English literature and restricted when trying to push the envelope in the world of math.
Secondly, educators subject to a mandated curriculum may become disenchanted with the teaching profession as there is limited scope for creativity. If a teacher does not believe with what should be taught, teachers may become jaded and not motivate students as hard as they should. It also limits the creativity of teachers when they realize that there may be tangential or new topics that should be taught as the world evolves. Hypothetically, the national curriculum could mean that teaching standards decrease as teachers don't have to care about what the students need and forcefully teach the students material that might not be interesting or beneficial to the students in the classroom.
Thirdly, a national curriculum may encourage cheating between students, parents, and teachers that will artificially inflate results. If a parent focused on getting the best scores for the students may be inclined to find ways to get answers to the tests/exams for the national curriculum so that their child(ren) get higher scores. This, however, is detrimental to students as they're not actually learning anything. Instead, they may be compelled to do rote memorization of answers. This circumstance holds true if the answers/tests are not properly protected, but if the answers/test material is properly kept "secret" as is the case with standardized tests like the GRE, then the test results may still be indicative of a student's ability.
While my three points may hold true, it should also be noted that mandating a national curriculum before college may be beneficial as it provides the same standard of education for students in areas where educators may be less inclined to provide top-quality education. The national curriculum provides a crutch with which a novice educator can lean upon when formulating lesson plans, but this is only useful for new teachers. Old teachers may not benefit from being forced a national curriculum.
In conclusion, while the author argues that a nation should enforce a national curriculum upon all students before college, there are multiple flaws with this point of view. Each student may have different educational requirements, teachers may become disincentivized, and cheating may artificially inflate results. For those reasons, a country should not have the same national curriculum for all students before they enrol in college. More information and analysis would be necessary to determine if a national curriculum would be beneficial, for instance, what the underlying motive for establishing a national curriculum is.
| Post date | Users | Rates | Link to Content |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-10-26 | vincentsjwu | 66 | view |
| 2019-09-19 | PrincewillOkosun | 50 | view |
| 2019-09-19 | PrincewillOkosun | 50 | view |
| 2019-09-16 | jay08 | 50 | view |
| 2019-09-09 | 1172910232 | 58 | view |
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 19, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: shouldn't
...wers are leaked. Firstly, a nation shouldnt mandate students study the same curricu...
^^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 526, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...teaching standards decrease as teachers dont have to care about what the students ne...
^^^^
Line 13, column 377, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: they're
... however, is detrimental to students as theyre not actually learning anything. Instead...
^^^^^^
Line 13, column 734, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'students'' or 'student's'?
Suggestion: students'; student's
...st results may still be indicative of a students ability. While my three points may...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, still, then, third, thirdly, while, for instance, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 40.0 12.9520958084 309% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 13.6137724551 132% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 28.8173652695 111% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 55.5748502994 90% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3204.0 2260.96107784 142% => OK
No of words: 592.0 441.139720559 134% => OK
Chars per words: 5.41216216216 5.12650576532 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.93265142912 4.56307096286 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00851488478 2.78398813304 108% => OK
Unique words: 270.0 204.123752495 132% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.456081081081 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 994.5 705.55239521 141% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.2362690655 57.8364921388 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 139.304347826 119.503703932 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.7391304348 23.324526521 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.08695652174 5.70786347227 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.259851259539 0.218282227539 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.111790549464 0.0743258471296 150% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0844323065165 0.0701772020484 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.182495476243 0.128457276422 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0650290514102 0.0628817314937 103% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.9 14.3799401198 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 48.3550499002 78% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.197005988 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.39 12.5979740519 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.37 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 131.0 98.500998004 133% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
---------------------
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.