A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college.
Effective formation of human capital is essential for any country, so the question of stardards in eduaction often attract a lot of attention. Some people offer initiatives for introducing a national curriculum which will standatize learning experiences for all students in the country. However, others oppose such an idea. In my opinion, a standartized curriculum is likely to bring about more problems than benefits, and here I would like to address the main reasons that make me think so.
First of all, no student is the same. Everyone has special needs and interests, so it is beneficial for students to have an opportunity to choose a school which alignes best with their needs. For example, a lot of gifted students feel bored in the classes offering only basic materail, while average students may struggle with more advanced courses. This results in one of those groups losing the interest for studing, thus, it is likely to lead to poor educational results. One of the best solutions for this problem is introduction of specialized schools or advanced groups within the school. This system provides more stimulating environment for students willing and able to study at the advanced level while not hurting other students. However, a unified curriculum makes such a system impossible. The similar case can be done for the opportunity to choose specialization while in school. Not everyone needs to take extra physics classes, but some people do. Standartization is likely to lead to lower standards in education or classes excessively hard for most students.
Moreover, underpriviledged students are likely to suffer from such a policy. While students from middle class who have parents with higher education are likely to have opportunity to engage in extracurricular education, others may have neither funds nor parental encouragement to take additional classes. A school with a standartized curriculum is unlikely to match the interests of these students and encourage them to learn. Furthermore, even if they do want to study more, they may lack opportunities to take advanced classes or enhance their knowledge in the areas of their particular interest.
One may argue that the absence of common knowledge makes creation of educational programms for undergraduate level much more difficult. If students from different schools differ drastically in their level of preparation, University professors will struggle with making their classes both intesting and accessable for everyone. However, this problem can be solved with the introduction of some minimal standards. They should state the knowledge and skills that must be obtained by everyone, while leaving some freedom to schools in choosing extra material.
To sum up, I am convinced that introduction of the standartized national curriculum can never be a good initiative. Students have drastically different needs, and a study plan which meets demands of one student may be unsatistactory for everyone else. While certain standards are necessary to ensure the right functioning of Universities, the restrictions on extra material offered by schools should not be introduced.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, furthermore, however, if, may, moreover, so, thus, while, for example, first of all, in my opinion, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 33.0505617978 76% => OK
Preposition: 67.0 58.6224719101 114% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 12.9106741573 139% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2666.0 2235.4752809 119% => OK
No of words: 492.0 442.535393258 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.41869918699 5.05705443957 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70967865282 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.04993203185 2.79657885939 109% => OK
Unique words: 257.0 215.323595506 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.522357723577 0.4932671777 106% => OK
syllable_count: 845.1 704.065955056 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.6155412113 60.3974514979 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.64 118.986275619 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.68 23.4991977007 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.84 5.21951772744 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
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: 0.148156369527 0.243740707755 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0471389807863 0.0831039109588 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0549706536945 0.0758088955206 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0925940558891 0.150359130593 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.032493599932 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: 13.9 14.1392134831 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 48.8420337079 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.16 12.1639044944 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.78 8.38706741573 105% => OK
difficult_words: 131.0 100.480337079 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 Out of 6
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