While some leaders in government, sports, industry, and other areas attribute their success to awell-developed sense of competition, a society can better prepare its young people for leadershipby instilling in them a sense of cooperation.

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While some leaders in government, sports, industry, and other areas attribute their success to a

well-developed sense of competition, a society can better prepare its young people for leadership

by instilling in them a sense of cooperation.

Education is essential to the process of building a state and creating members of society, who serve society in the future. Content and curriculum are some of the most important factors for parents deciding where to send their children. If a nation required all of its students to study the same national curriculum until entry into college, it would be largely disadvantageous. While a standardized curriculum would equally prepare people equally, the skills that a child needs through an education coudl vary from district to district. For example, a more variety and flexibility in curriculum can be beneficial to students who prefer more independence in studying their own content. Another problem in this policy would be deciding how to make a one-size-fits-all curriculum that would be beneficial to the public.

Firstly, a national curriculum for all would not work because students from different districts have different backgrounds and may want a curriculum suited to their history. For example, a Chinese neighborhood in Chicago may want to adjust its curriculum to be more tailored towards people of a Chinese background. Chinese families might want to put their children into programs where they can learn Chinese history or perhaps Mandarin. If a policy were adopted where the national curriculum dictated that students could only learn German as a foreign language, this would make Chinese families in Chicago more reluctant to have their children studying under the national curriculum.

Secondly, changing the curriculum to a standardized one could create an unfair disadvantage for some students. It has been demonstrated in research, that students who are in a more flexible curriculum with more variety perform better. This is because some students are not able to engage with topics or themes that do not interest them. If student is a passionate artist, but are forced to take music, which they hate, this could create an unfair disadvantage for that student. A student should therefore be able to have a flexible curriculum available or have a choice to attend a school with a different curriculum to cater their interests.

Lastly, finding an perfect curriculum that covers all the needs of students in one nation would be impossible. Again, the need of each student would be different, as each student is naturally predisposed to have certain skills. If a national curriculum was created there would certainly have to be limits in terms of what is provided in the said curriculum. The limitations created by this curriculum could be harmful to students who hope to apply within certain college programs. For example, a student who is studying engineering might need to study physics and chemistry to get into a certain program, however if the curriculum states that they are limited to one science this could be signficantly disadvantageous.

Overall, it is clear that a national school curriculum would be significantly disadvantageous for all students. Rather, variety in curriculum should be emphasized and provided to offer students the highest standard of education possible. As seen by the examples above, designing a curriculum that fits all students could create several problems. The limits of such a system could cause parents to not send their children to schools with this curriculum. A less flexible curriculum would be unfair to students who thrive on creativity and more options. Finally, a fixed curriculum would only create a certain student profile, which would prevent students from having the freedom to pick their future.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 13, column 17, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
... their interests. Lastly, finding an perfect curriculum that covers all the ...
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Line 13, column 229, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...lly predisposed to have certain skills. If a national curriculum was created there...
^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, firstly, however, if, lastly, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, for example

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.5258426966 149% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 30.0 12.4196629213 242% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 11.3162921348 186% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 33.0505617978 103% => OK
Preposition: 70.0 58.6224719101 119% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3019.0 2235.4752809 135% => OK
No of words: 569.0 442.535393258 129% => OK
Chars per words: 5.30579964851 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.88402711743 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93947646128 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 242.0 215.323595506 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.425307557118 0.4932671777 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 944.1 704.065955056 134% => 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: 11.0 4.99550561798 220% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.38483146067 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.9336172973 60.3974514979 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 116.115384615 118.986275619 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8846153846 23.4991977007 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.11538461538 5.21951772744 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0631524915428 0.243740707755 26% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0268430895539 0.0831039109588 32% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0248714993594 0.0758088955206 33% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0473148082994 0.150359130593 31% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0289052501979 0.0667264976115 43% => 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: 14.5 14.1392134831 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 48.8420337079 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.52 12.1639044944 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.26 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 129.0 100.480337079 128% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.

Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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