A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college.
Ever since the start of compulsory education via government sponsorship, legislators and those in power have struggled with designing school systems that are efficient and effective. While national guidelines could ensure equal opportunity and highly educated citizens, sweeping control could lead to a lack of flexibility that could be deleterious to teachers and students.
First of all, a national curriculum would ensure that students from all backgrounds can learn the same things in school. Thus, children at the bottom of the income bracket could expect to learn the same curriculum as those at the top. This would make future assimiliation into university easier and more fair. It would also establish a lower limit for schools to have to meet in order to stay on curriculum, in turn creating a more educated public. However, such efforts are idealistic and not always practical when implemented.
For example, right now in the United States of America, there is a huge divide in the standard of education quality between schools in low and high income areas. The low income areas have worse books, materials, after-school programs, and fail to attract the best teachers. It is for that reason that states required schools to meet certain levels at state-wide standardized tests. Schools with better scores receive awards and higher matriculation. However, some argue that "teaching to the test" provides excellent testing outcomes but poor overall education for a child.
To avoid subpar public schools, some parents choose to place their children in specialized private schools, such as Montessori or Waldorf to ensure smaller class sizes and bolster student creativity. Some students themselves choose to attend charter schools and specialize in math and science early. Some parents even choose to homeschool their children in order to fully allow them to set their own pace of learning. While a nation should strive to enforce a certain standard of education for all citizens, it cannot expect to create a curriculum that allows every student to rise to his or her full potential. However, not all parents can afford to send their students to specialized schools or stay home to homeschool, so public schools must be able to adequately prepare any student for adult life and college.
Overall, the education system in any country is fraught with oversights and complexities and simply is not able to fully accomodate every child. Requiring a national curriculum for students until they enter college is a good starting point for student success, but it should be implemented carefully as more of a guide-line than a strict set of lesson plans or exams to be taken. Equality is important, especially in the hope to counteract the the correllation between wealth and good education, but equality in education is a complicated issue and cannot be solved by simply requiring a national curriculum and doing nothing else.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, so, thus, while, for example, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.5258426966 72% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 25.0 14.8657303371 168% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 33.0505617978 70% => OK
Preposition: 65.0 58.6224719101 111% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2480.0 2235.4752809 111% => OK
No of words: 471.0 442.535393258 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.26539278132 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65859790218 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8163063804 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 254.0 215.323595506 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.539278131635 0.4932671777 109% => OK
syllable_count: 774.0 704.065955056 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.0479346372 60.3974514979 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.0 118.986275619 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.55 23.4991977007 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.1 5.21951772744 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => 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: 0.230692592837 0.243740707755 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0610983757049 0.0831039109588 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0884345741114 0.0758088955206 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.119360611588 0.150359130593 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0832922938835 0.0667264976115 125% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 14.1392134831 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.8420337079 99% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.58 12.1639044944 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.83 8.38706741573 105% => OK
difficult_words: 121.0 100.480337079 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 11.8971910112 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.