A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college.
A common curriculum for all students in a nation has many advantages and disadvantages but the advantages do seem to be more prevalent. There are many countries around the world that follow a common national curriculum and there has been a positive impact of such a curriculum but it is important to remember that there are things about such a curriculum that could also have a negative impact on students.
A national curriculum offers all the students access to the same resources and helps even the plane for students who are socioeconomically disadvantaged. Many schools in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas have fewer funds as compared to schools in richer neighborhoods which limits their access to resources for the students. The limitation in resources can disadvantage the education of students and hold them back from achieving their full potential. The differing resources can also result in a difference in their curriculum which can impact a student's ability to get into a college. By creating a national curriculum, all students will receive the same level of education and will have an equitable start before they enter college. This would also increase the effectiveness of tests like the SAT and ACT as all students who take the test will have a similar background. This is substantiated by trends in other countries that have a national curriculum.
In India, where there are multiple national curriculums that all schools follow, having a common curriculum has provided the opportunity to provide a leveled education to all students regardless of their economic status. Having the same curriculum and the same books available for all students in the country provides the opportunity for people from different background to learn at an equal level. The positive impact of such a curriculum has been observed in the constantly decreasing gap between the performance of students from schools in different socioeconomic areas. In fact, students from villages where schools are not well funded have also received national recognition for their excellent performance in recent years and the national curriculum may have been a contributing factor to the drastic improvement.
Despite all the positives, there have been some negative effects observed due to the national curriculum. Having a national curriculum has the potential to turn the education system into a competition. When the entire country is learning the same material and taking the same tests, there is a potential for a competition which can become stressful for students. Although competition can improve the performance of students it can also create a stressful and hostile environment if given too much importance. It is important that the introduction of a national curriculum does not overvalue performance of students and demean students who do not meet the desired level as that can have a negative impact on the mental health of young adults. Although this is a drawback of having a national curriculum, a national curriculum offers all students equality of opportunity which is very important for all students.
By having a common curriculum across the nation for students before they attend college, it can be ensured they learn the same things and are more prepared for college. Not only can it improve the opportunities for students from low socioeconomic backgrounds, but it can also improve the level of preparedness of all students before they start college.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'students'' or 'student's'?
Suggestion: students'; student's
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Suggestion: students'; student's
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, may, so, well, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.4196629213 129% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 14.8657303371 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 33.0505617978 79% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 58.6224719101 106% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 12.9106741573 139% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2911.0 2235.4752809 130% => OK
No of words: 551.0 442.535393258 125% => OK
Chars per words: 5.2831215971 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.84493438435 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.07505826718 2.79657885939 110% => OK
Unique words: 212.0 215.323595506 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.384754990926 0.4932671777 78% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 935.1 704.065955056 133% => 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: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.6655976554 60.3974514979 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 138.619047619 118.986275619 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.2380952381 23.4991977007 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.7619047619 5.21951772744 34% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.357031519999 0.243740707755 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.148404513701 0.0831039109588 179% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0910772714289 0.0758088955206 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.250377199626 0.150359130593 167% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0310443335551 0.0667264976115 47% => 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: 16.6 14.1392134831 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.63 48.8420337079 75% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.1743820225 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.64 12.1639044944 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.91 8.38706741573 94% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 100.480337079 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 11.8971910112 130% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4 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.