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 your views on the policy and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting yo

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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 your views on the policy and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider the possible consequences of implementing the policy and explain how these consequences shape your position.

The idea of same national curriculum has takers among policy-makers and corporate, especially as education in this century has been a key component for national integration. The identity of the citizen is largely developed in schools, where they learn to be a citizen of a nation state. But this sort of nationalized curriculum has come across a lot of criticism in the past.

One of the problems in standardization of a curriculum is that it is extremely exclusive. For instance, in India which is a culturally diverse, a single national curriculum has often meant domination of Hindi and English as a language. The about the domination of North India- centre being in Delhi (North India)- as often been criticized for being exclusive toward the other parts of the country which have their own vernacular language. Such debates are not new in India, there has always been state boards under the supervision of individual state governments along side central Board like CBSE and ICSE.

Furthermore the debates become crucial when it comes to the marginalized section. Often these standard curriculums do not suit the lower caste or Muslims as they are designed by the majority community, Hindus. So the way in which the ideas are developed are insensitive or culturally irrelevant to the marginalized sections. Like due to the caste ridden nature of the Indian society the dalits(lower caste) have faced atrocities but the standard curriculum has mostly avoided the mention of such events. While the dalit organizations have regularly highlighted such violent omission in the content. Such criticism is often in conjunction with the problem of nationalized education instead of more local one.

Moreover, in the last decade there has been an overall consensus that education should be culturally sensitive. This has developed relentless fight for inclusivity in national education and mainstream. Presently, these critics, mainly from the anti-caste or anti-race movement, have shown that standardized national curriculum cannot help student from marginalized section to get into the mainstream. As the pedagogy and institutional structure itself is discriminatory. They are, thus, talking of a context specific education where students can actually learn what is relevant. One such experiment in a black locality, which is extremely polluted due to dumping of hazardous waste, has shown that students are keener on learning what is going around in their surroundings. They have developed a curriculum to study about the chemicals (in science), writing letter to the mayor for some resolution ( in english), etc. So a number of different sort of assessment and field visit is helping student learn with more interest.

A nationalized education can make it easier for a government or corporate to have standardized scale of judgment but such a method has always favored the majority. Thus when we are talking of social justice and inclusivity such a centralized curriculum is certainly not a way forward.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, furthermore, if, may, moreover, so, thus, while, for instance, sort of, talking of

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 12.4196629213 32% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 33.0505617978 61% => OK
Preposition: 65.0 58.6224719101 111% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 12.9106741573 170% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2534.0 2235.4752809 113% => OK
No of words: 475.0 442.535393258 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.33473684211 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.66845742379 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.04047962392 2.79657885939 109% => OK
Unique words: 243.0 215.323595506 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.511578947368 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 827.1 704.065955056 117% => 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: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.3250714893 60.3974514979 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.173913043 118.986275619 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.652173913 23.4991977007 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.21739130435 5.21951772744 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.2758426966 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 5.13820224719 214% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.179632031703 0.243740707755 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0536538824528 0.0831039109588 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0449455391034 0.0758088955206 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.106880496517 0.150359130593 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0533847931691 0.0667264976115 80% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 14.1392134831 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 48.8420337079 87% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.63 12.1639044944 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.88 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 128.0 100.480337079 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 11.8971910112 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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