A Nation Should Require All Of Its Students To Study The Same National Curriculum Until They Enter College

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A Nation Should Require All Of Its Students To Study The Same National Curriculum Until They Enter College

The statement argue that all students should be required with the same curriculum before tertiary education. I think, though national curriculum has some benefits it has more drawbacks which we must pay attention to and render the policy largely unacceptable.

To begin with, a national curriculum would help students to transfer their schools. When students leave their familiar schools and study at a brand new place, he/she is likely to bear great pressure and may be painstaking to adapt to the new environment. However, if the student could take the same courses, he/she would just continue his/her study, thus finding things much easy to deal with. For developing countries where intense urbanization is taking place, the merit would be even more salient. The national curriculum keeps population mobilization smooth because families do not need to worry about their children's learning problem.

What is more, same curriculum would help government to set up a fair exam system to evaluate the performance of both students and teachers. Last but not least, the policy may be economical for government since it saves local government lots of fiscal expenditures to discuss their curriculums. Additionally, with the help of economy of scale, which indicates that a national policy can be more effective since it could allocate national resources one time,it could be an effective policy.

However, we should also be aware of the drawbacks of the policy. First, the statement is largely based on an unwarranted assumption that a nation has legitimacy to control the curriculum, or the course students should take, thus intervening their personal development. However, the students with clear career plan and sound judgment should make his/her own decision without the parenting of their schools or nation. The government, on the other hand, should respect the right of free choice for studens. In this sense, the statement would be more reasonable if a nation only encourage students to take certain courses which the government or expert deems as important, but the decision should made by students themselves. For instance, a student who has both ambition and aptitude to become a pianoist may not want to take complicated algebra courses. Under this circumstance, the requirement would hamper his/her choice and largely inlegitimate.

What is more, the statement ignore another important fact that a nation may not be so homigenized. Hence, a national curriculum is likely to fail since it cannot take all the provinces into account. Take Canada as an example. students from Quebec and Ontario apparently has different culture backgrounds, English and France, thus local government may hope to devote more time and effort to teach students more about their own languages, cultures and geographical knowledges. A national curriculum is unlikely to take needs of both provinces into account, thus likely to be rejected.

To sum up, though in certain scenarios when the policy encouraging instead of requiring the same curriculum might be counducive when the population mobility is frequent, a national curriculum is largely unacceptable because it fails to take varieties all over the nation into account and largely unlegitimate.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, apparently, but, first, hence, however, if, may, so, thus, for instance, i think, to begin with, to sum up, what is more, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 25.0 12.4196629213 201% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 33.0505617978 100% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 58.6224719101 99% => OK
Nominalization: 25.0 12.9106741573 194% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2762.0 2235.4752809 124% => OK
No of words: 509.0 442.535393258 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.42632612967 5.05705443957 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74984508646 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85636263055 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 259.0 215.323595506 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.50884086444 0.4932671777 103% => OK
syllable_count: 857.7 704.065955056 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Interrogative: 3.0 0.740449438202 405% => OK
Article: 15.0 4.99550561798 300% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.9837468787 60.3974514979 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.086956522 118.986275619 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1304347826 23.4991977007 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.30434782609 5.21951772744 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.309799373235 0.243740707755 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0976879227721 0.0831039109588 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0707957552039 0.0758088955206 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.188298023636 0.150359130593 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0461927695323 0.0667264976115 69% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 14.1392134831 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 48.8420337079 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.1743820225 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.21 12.1639044944 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.61 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 125.0 100.480337079 124% => 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: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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