"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.
A nation's future politicians, laborers, artists, musicians, and accountants are all made in the classroom. The foundation of a nation is something that should be not subjected to the whims of one person or even a particular region; the price is too high. A centralized curriculum, that emphasises a well rounded education, devoid of interference from any one person or ideology gives all students, regardless of background, the best chance of learning and academic success That is why I believe that all students, in any given nation, should be formed and educated under a standardized national curriculum.
Standardization grants multiple advantages to an academic experience of a nation's young minds. The equal measure of academics can lead to accurate stratification of a nation's children in future professional careers. From roughly the age of 6 until 18, students would be subjected to the same curriculum, and with it testing, would be a clear indicator of what students should be destined for college and what others should, perhaps go down different paths. All nations need lawyers, as well as plumbers and construction workers. By leveling the academic playing field, a nation can stratify and understand who would be best suited for what jobs, with over 10 years of aggregrated academic data.
Equal measure of academics does more than inherently level the academic playing field; it also levels the socio-economic one. Nations can be made up of vast expanses of land and extremely diverse peoples. A student from a extremely urbanized city center, should have as close to the same academic experience as somewhere from a rural countryside. A standardized national curriculum would expose both of these disparate examples to the same well-rounded academic experience and give both as fair a chance as possible to academically succeed.
As aforementioned, standardization would also serve to 'level the bubble' in terms of our nation's teachers. It is a fact of life that people, and indeed teachers, prefer one subject over another. This fact can lead to inherent biases amongst teachers who want to focus more time and energy on one subject over another. A national curriculum would help to balance the curriculum, and make for a more well rounded student.
Standardization, for all of its benefits, does have some inate disadvantages. Rigidity in the curriculum could serve to styme creativity amongst students. All students learn and digest academic material differently; this is true amongst adults as well. While standardized in curriculum, however, the average teacher will be able to instruct and teach the material how he or she sees fit. A curriculum serves more as a framework, with the teacher actually instructing and being where 'the rubber meets the road'. And this is why what to teach is something that should be decided at a national level.
Standardization is by no means a perfect solution to confront the challenge of shaping and invigorating a nation's young minds, but it is the best option available. College is the next level, where academically successful students can start to specialize and hone in on their particular field of study. With proper implementation, and adapation, a standardized national curriculum would serve to create the best future citizens of a nation.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'A nation' or simply 'nations'?
Suggestion: A nation; Nations
A nations future politicians, laborers, artists, ...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... chance of learning and academic success That is why I believe that all students,...
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Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a nation' or simply 'nations'?
Suggestion: a nation; nations
...advantages to an academic experience of a nations young minds. The equal measure of acade...
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Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...tremely diverse peoples. A student from a extremely urbanized city center, should...
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Message: Comparison requires 'than', not 'then' nor 'as'.
Suggestion: than
... she sees fit. A curriculum serves more as a framework, with the teacher actually ...
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Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a nation' or simply 'nations'?
Suggestion: a nation; nations
...e challenge of shaping and invigorating a nations young minds, but it is the best option ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, however, if, so, well, while, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.4196629213 169% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 14.8657303371 155% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 33.0505617978 61% => OK
Preposition: 65.0 58.6224719101 111% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2788.0 2235.4752809 125% => OK
No of words: 531.0 442.535393258 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.25047080979 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.80035803286 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.11274426704 2.79657885939 111% => OK
Unique words: 265.0 215.323595506 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.499058380414 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 884.7 704.065955056 126% => 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: 13.0 4.99550561798 260% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.77640449438 394% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.517392416 60.3974514979 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.52 118.986275619 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.24 23.4991977007 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.44 5.21951772744 47% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.83258426966 186% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.187108802616 0.243740707755 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0617501662097 0.0831039109588 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0401803881686 0.0758088955206 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.112622423775 0.150359130593 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0280280227386 0.0667264976115 42% => 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: 41.7 48.8420337079 85% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.17 12.1639044944 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.6 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 132.0 100.480337079 131% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 16.0 11.8971910112 134% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => 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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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.