Nations should require a national curriculum.
I can partially assent to the recommendation due to the fact that it intimates good intentions, but also presents itself as a blanket statement that does not seem to consider hindering implications.
Certainly having a national curriculum would allow a country to have trenchant data that could lend itself as a guide to bettering curriculum. Assessments on a national scale can bolster policy moves. For example, if a nation is assessing students with similar curriculum, then policy makers can use the data of successful schools and failing schools. To expand more on this point, and to provide a more realistic example, the United States recently implemented the Common Core, which mandated a government research based curriculum across the country. This policy has allowed teachers to share resources nationwide and created comparable data. This data opens the doors for districts and states to used successful strategies that are evident, given that the same topics are taught and tested.
Conversely, that same US policy has had negative impacts. Some states pertinaciously fought the notion of mandating a government research based curriculum since not all states shared similar historical backgrounds. It is not fair to ask California, a state established after the constitution, to teach with the same format as Philadelphia, which was a founding colony. Texas was one of the biggest states to refute the mandate because it understood that education was circumstantial even within the massive state, so it would clearly differ on a national scale.
Given the Texas state mentality, perhaps a better way to view this recommendation is to consider that a national curriculum as an option to the public. The increase of technology allows this modification to be a reality. For instance, an online version of a national curriculum where parents or guardians registered their children as a choice, instead of being enforced into their education by their government. Additionally, There is the option of creating this curriculum within charter schools. These solutions allow the recommendation to stay as it is, with a lighter approach to choice.
Moreover, the idea of a national curriculum does not have to end at the college level. It would be easier for graduates to apply across states if companies knew that all of their candidates were trained equally regardless of their state. There would be a more comparable pool of candidates if this recommendation went beyond college.
In conclusion, we must remember that education is always a hot topic when it comes to government because, as the axiom "Children are our future."It needs to be stressed, however, that while the statement intimates good intentions, such as providing equal access to communities regardless of their socio-economic stance, policies need to consider the differences in culture and history.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, conversely, however, if, moreover, so, then, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 14.8657303371 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 33.0505617978 118% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 58.6224719101 92% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 12.9106741573 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2443.0 2235.4752809 109% => OK
No of words: 454.0 442.535393258 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.38105726872 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61598047577 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.10869121504 2.79657885939 111% => OK
Unique words: 247.0 215.323595506 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.544052863436 0.4932671777 110% => OK
syllable_count: 772.2 704.065955056 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 73.9535496105 60.3974514979 122% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.15 118.986275619 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.7 23.4991977007 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.6 5.21951772744 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => 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: 0.198048453199 0.243740707755 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0692634482301 0.0831039109588 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0846258547691 0.0758088955206 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0925909572964 0.150359130593 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0781218024208 0.0667264976115 117% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 14.1392134831 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 48.8420337079 83% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.1743820225 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.22 12.1639044944 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.39 8.38706741573 112% => OK
difficult_words: 134.0 100.480337079 133% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => 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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