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.
First, a national curriculum such as I have grown up with through high school in the United States, i.e. the Common Core and standardized testing, has many benefits. For example, some school districts are underfunded and underserved, yet the national curriculum provides measurable goals which require teachers to bring students up to a minimum level of understanding of such important life lessons as basic algebra, economics, and U.S. history. At this point, the U.S. is not even succesfully meeting this standard threshold; some TV shows feature segments where average U.S. citizens on the street cannot name key historical dates or do basic math. Therefore, it is important to keep the national curricuculum as a standard of pre-college education. Even if the standard was being perfectly met in the U.S. and the average citizen could pass a TV show's questioning, the national curriculum should be maintained because it equips every citizen with the essential knowledge and lessons that are the basic building blocks of thriving in the U.S.
However, it may be argued that there is value in educating students according to their special skills and doing away with a national curriculum for specialty schools. For example, the magnet schools and art schools in my city are the best in the country. Students may have a calling besides U.S. history and migh tbe most valuable to the country as deep learners of one subject, rather than broad learners of many basic subjects. Do dancers really need to be able to do algebra and name the year of our country's founding? I believe they do, and even the magnet and arts schools that I know hold to the standard of teaching the national curriculum. The only drawback for these specialty schools is that students have a heavier, more intensive load of classes with both the deep learning of their talents and the broad learning of the national curriculum to manage, but they reap the rewards of the schools' prestige, are better candidates for college, and will be more succesful citizens for taking on the extra challenge.
Last, I would heartily disagree with a national curriculum that eliminated classes like art and sports from education before college and only the national curriculum itself was taught. This system would tip the scale far away from the strong entrepneurship and diversity of skilled labor the U.S. currently boasts in its population and instead create a bland, unspecialized workforce that could not lead the global market in practically any area, except maybe in writing U.S. history books.
Overall, the national curriculum I grew up with benefitted my college-readiness and work force-readiness hugely. I became accustomed to standardized testing from a young age, my scores were measurable according to national averages so that my instructors knew which areas of their classes I needed help in, and I was able to study subjects both broadly and deeply, by testing in the Common Core while taking art and sports classes. Therefore, the U.S. model of requiring a national curriculum before college should continue.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, first, however, if, may, really, so, therefore, while, for example, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 24.0 14.8657303371 161% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 33.0505617978 103% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 58.6224719101 102% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 12.9106741573 23% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2592.0 2235.4752809 116% => OK
No of words: 504.0 442.535393258 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.14285714286 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.73813722054 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7992790302 2.79657885939 100% => OK
Unique words: 261.0 215.323595506 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.517857142857 0.4932671777 105% => OK
syllable_count: 796.5 704.065955056 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.77640449438 394% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.2370786517 74% => 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: 33.0 23.0359550562 143% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 112.826513826 60.3974514979 187% => OK
Chars per sentence: 172.8 118.986275619 145% => OK
Words per sentence: 33.6 23.4991977007 143% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.93333333333 5.21951772744 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => 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: 0.218763250436 0.243740707755 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.078552522094 0.0831039109588 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0556651901671 0.0758088955206 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.132620680884 0.150359130593 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0173517060208 0.0667264976115 26% => 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: 19.6 14.1392134831 139% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.98 48.8420337079 78% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.2 12.1743820225 133% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.12 12.1639044944 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.75 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 111.0 100.480337079 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 20.0 11.8971910112 168% => OK
gunning_fog: 15.2 11.2143820225 136% => OK
text_standard: 20.0 11.7820224719 170% => 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: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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