A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college.
The United States and Canada have thousands of school districts. Many of these operate semi-autonomously and have the right to devise their own curricula. This implies that students across the country have widely different levels of education and, consequently, unequal economic opportunities later in life. These issues could be remedied with a national curriculum which could ensure a uniform and homogenous level of education across the country.
Allowing different school boards to have different curricula may result in strong educational disparities across the nation. Thus, a religious community valuing bible studies over mathematics may decide not to teach the topic all together. While surely we must take into account the views of a variety of when constructing a national curriculum, we must also ensure that the curriculum is balanced. It would therefore be potentially harmful to delegate the determination of educational content solely to various communities themselves, which may result in students with wildly differing levels of knowledge.
Furthermore, a national curriculum ensures equality of opportunity across the nation. Students who live in a school board that doesn’t teach basic mathematics cannot be expected to succeed in the work force as much as those who have had highly technical education. A national curriculum allows a national to provide its students with a homogenous quality of education which then results in equal workplace opportunities.
Additionally, education is a vital tool for socialization. Often times young students just entering grade school have little knowledge about the culture and history of their nation. A vital role of schools is to teach these important subjects to young pupils and thus to create a sense of solidarity among them and a sense of attachment and loyalty to the nation. It is for this reason that many schools require students to recite the pledge of allegiance and sing the national anthem every morning. However, in nations with complex ethnic identities relegating authority over education to school boards may cause schools to teach different version of history and thus serve to sew disunity in the country. In Israel, for example, Jewish schools teach pupils exclusively about the history of Jews in Israel while Arab schools about the history of Palestinians. It is thus not surprising that the two communities have not managed to live in peace with one another.
Nevertheless, some may reasonably argue that by decentralizing the authority to determine school curricula one is in fact empowering individual community. It gives them a greater freedom of expression and allows them to socialize their own youth in accordance to their own traditions and culture. This, many would argue, is vital component of a free nation.
While there is strong truth in this argument it neglects the fact that in a democracy that nation must reign supreme over its individual communities. This is not to say that individual communities are not without their rights, yet these are expressed through the act of voting for national representatives. Thus even under a national curriculum, individual communities would still have their sway over it by electing representatives which would be involved in crafting it.
There are many benefits to having a national curriculum. It serves to unify the nation and ensures a freedom of opportunity across the nation. By providing a uniform level of education to all citizens we can ensure that no student is left behind and that all students can feel like they are part of the nation. As such it is imperative that in countries like the US or Canada, which today do not have a single national curriculum, one is implemented.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 11, column 1, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “While” 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.
...s vital component of a free nation. While there is strong truth in this argument ...
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Line 13, column 101, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[1]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'freedom'.
Suggestion: freedom
... serves to unify the nation and ensures a freedom of opportunity across the nation. By pr...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, consequently, furthermore, however, if, may, nevertheless, so, still, then, therefore, thus, while, for example, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 11.3162921348 177% => OK
Pronoun: 47.0 33.0505617978 142% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 94.0 58.6224719101 160% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3161.0 2235.4752809 141% => OK
No of words: 594.0 442.535393258 134% => OK
Chars per words: 5.32154882155 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.93681225224 4.55969084622 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98908414367 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 277.0 215.323595506 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.46632996633 0.4932671777 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1020.6 704.065955056 145% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.2370786517 138% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.628003515 60.3974514979 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.892857143 118.986275619 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2142857143 23.4991977007 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.5 5.21951772744 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 7.0 4.97078651685 141% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 21.0 10.2758426966 204% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.28393625969 0.243740707755 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0882765391772 0.0831039109588 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0785159806297 0.0758088955206 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.153480841525 0.150359130593 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0880989563787 0.0667264976115 132% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 14.1392134831 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 48.8420337079 85% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.58 12.1639044944 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.69 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 151.0 100.480337079 150% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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