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 national curriculum sounds like a good idea. It would be ideal if every student in a country had the same body of knowledge and set of skills upon graduation from high school. However, this is only possible if every student is the same as every other student. Some may argue that a ready-to-use curriculum would save individual school districts and teachers the time it takes to develop curriculum of their own. Others may point out the expense of purchasing text books and other materials needed to follow a national curriculum. In the case of the United States, there is continuous comparison between what American students achieve and what students in other industrial nations achieve. On the surface, the US does not compare favorably to many of those countries. A national curriculum may be the solution to that problem. However, each of the fifty states must be convinced to give up control over its own educational philosophy.
The logistics of creating a national curriculum in the United States in daunting. The US has the third largest population in the world, divided among fifty separately governed states. It was and continues to be a nation of immigrants. Those immigrants come from all over the world, bringing their languages and customs with them. Immigrants have a greater impact on some states than on others. Schools are challenged to educate children who can’t even speak English. A national curriculum may be the straw that breaks the camel’s back, educationally. Under ideal conditions, school districts would need considerable financial and technical support to adopt a national curriculum; added to other obstacles that already tax the abilities of some districts, a national curriculum could cause a mutiny.
A national curriculum would be likely to focus on the core areas of education; math, science, language arts, and social studies. One would be hard put to find someone who disagrees with the idea that all children of a country should have the same math skills, the same understanding of science, the same abilities to read and communicate effectively, and the same knowledge of history, geography, and government. However, many would also argue that there is great benefit in participating in the arts, knowing how to cook a meal or sew on a button, and being physically active. Others may hope their children learn the basics of a vocational trade such as carpentry, auto mechanics, or welding. Would there be room for these elective programs in a national curriculum?
Two compromises come to mind. The first entails requiring a national curriculum through grade eight. From kindergarten through middle school, all teachers would adhere to a national curriculum. These are the grades in which students learn the fundamentals of reading, writing, math, and social studies. Every student would be well-prepared for high school, where teachers develop a curriculum that encourages students to further develop the skills they learned in the lower grades. The four years of high school would focus on the core areas but allow students the time to explore other areas of interest. The second compromise consists of a set of guidelines or standards that enumerate the skills and knowledge that every student must be able to demonstrate with proficiency before graduating from high school. Every teacher would know what his or her students must be able to do or understand and use instructional strategies and materials to make that possible.
A nation’s desire to promote the educational well being of its children is laudable and, perhaps, necessary. In order to foster creativity and individuality, the means to accomplish this should be left to the practitioners who also have the best interests of children at heart.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
flaws:
The first paragraph could be shorter. Don't start to discuss the ideas from the introduction paragraph.
need more arguments in the fourth paragraph. There are a lot of facts.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 32 15
No. of Words: 609 350
No. of Characters: 3076 1500
No. of Different Words: 294 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.968 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.051 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.774 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 223 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 178 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 126 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 86 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.031 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.984 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.469 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.264 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.423 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.089 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 273, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'argues'.
Suggestion: argues
...e same as every other student. Some may argue that a ready-to-use curriculum would sa...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'second', 'so', 'third', 'well', 'such as']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.243795620438 0.240241500013 101% => OK
Verbs: 0.141605839416 0.157235817809 90% => OK
Adjectives: 0.105109489051 0.0880659088768 119% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0277372262774 0.0497285424764 56% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0175182481752 0.0444667217837 39% => OK
Prepositions: 0.0992700729927 0.12292977631 81% => OK
Participles: 0.029197080292 0.0406280797675 72% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.90050982688 2.79330140395 104% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0350364963504 0.030933414821 113% => OK
Particles: 0.0029197080292 0.0016655270985 175% => OK
Determiners: 0.124087591241 0.0997080785238 124% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0335766423358 0.0249443105267 135% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0204379562044 0.0148568991511 138% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3777.0 2732.02544248 138% => OK
No of words: 609.0 452.878318584 134% => OK
Chars per words: 6.20197044335 6.0361032391 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.96768813016 4.58838876751 108% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.372742200328 0.366273622748 102% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.313628899836 0.280924506359 112% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.238095238095 0.200843997647 119% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.151067323481 0.132149295362 114% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90050982688 2.79330140395 104% => OK
Unique words: 299.0 219.290929204 136% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.490968801314 0.48968727796 100% => OK
Word variations: 60.941206194 55.4138127331 110% => OK
How many sentences: 32.0 20.6194690265 155% => OK
Sentence length: 19.03125 23.380412469 81% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.2574647825 59.4972553346 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.03125 141.124799967 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.03125 23.380412469 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.34375 0.674092028746 51% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.21349557522 19% => OK
Readability: 50.3941399836 51.4728631049 98% => OK
Elegance: 1.9921875 1.64882698954 121% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.471163465027 0.391690518653 120% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0912314579121 0.123202303941 74% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0758865490748 0.077325440228 98% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.442184102572 0.547984918172 81% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.154861667313 0.149214159877 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.168314109423 0.161403998019 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.078338286888 0.0892212321368 88% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.464368199296 0.385218514788 121% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0678136661033 0.0692045440612 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.351390335894 0.275328986314 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0164599847652 0.0653680567796 25% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.4325221239 144% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.30420353982 57% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 14.0 4.88274336283 287% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 14.0 7.22455752212 194% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 3.66592920354 82% => OK
Neutral topic words: 11.0 2.70907079646 406% => Less neutral topic words wanted.
Total topic words: 28.0 13.5995575221 206% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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