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 the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position

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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 the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.

A national curriculum exposes students to the history of their nation, providing them with a holistic view of their cultural, economical, social and technological evolution, rather than promoting a provincial view circumscribed to their respective states. Students learn to appreciate the fact that their state(or local region) has evolved out of an agglomeration of states, which forms a nation, and is still contingent upon other member states for its progress in various spheres.

An identical national curriculum will persuade students to ponder on the problems of national importance, as they will learn to recognize themselves as a part of the whole. An instance emphasizing the importance of having a hawk-eye view on national problems is the current state of drug abuse in West Virginia. If we have a chapter on the perils of drug abuse and have the current state of West Virginia as a case study in the syllabus of schools in say New York, it will prompt students to come up with different experiments and solutions to eradicate this problem, even if this problem has no bearings on the New Yorkers.

When students across states share common information base, it ameliorates the plausibility of inter-state discourses of national interests during their childhood itself. The nation need not wait for their students to reach a maturity level for them to appreciate the value of national interests over that of their own state or province etc. For example, with a national curriculum in place, students from different states can participate in debate competitions with topics germane to the nation and not just their states or immediate neighbours.

Looking at the view of a common national curriculum in terms of convenience, it is common for students to migrate from one state to another due to personal reasons like their parents switching jobs etc. In such cases, having a common curriculum makes this transition easier for students as they do not find themselves completely alien to what is been taught in their new school. For example, India is known for its diversity in various spheres, and education sector is not untouched by this either. There are several education boards prescribing curriculum with little or no overlaps among one another. A student whose father has changed job or has been transferred from say Andhra Pradesh to Maharashtra, has to virtually start from scratch, aligning herself with the new curriculum, and an almost little to no overlap among those state board curriculum, leaves this goal an arduous one to accomplish.

On a bigger scale, fostering of regional politics and strong predilections of administrative officers, ministers and decision makers, in general, to benefit their states, while they are in power, is often the result of their provincial mindset, in which their early education plays a pivotal role. A national curriculum has the potential to subdue the development of these regional prejudices in the minds of students during their formative years. A common national curriculum will channel students to an unprejudiced path, with students viewing entire nation as their own, rather than developing affinity towards the welfare of their home state or region etc.

However, my advocacy on a common national curriculum should not be construed as disregarding the interests of individual students. My view does not discourage establishing special interest groups in schools focusing on different extracurricular, academic activities or even engaging in discussions on regional issues.

I would proffer that schools(and the nation in general) should adopt a liberal view of informing students about their national history, current challenges, etc by adopting a nation-wide curriculum, but should not balk students from pursuing their special interests.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, look, regarding, so, still, while, as to, for example, in general

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.5258426966 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 46.0 33.0505617978 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 97.0 58.6224719101 165% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3221.0 2235.4752809 144% => OK
No of words: 601.0 442.535393258 136% => OK
Chars per words: 5.35940099834 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.95129289623 4.55969084622 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94052589884 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 298.0 215.323595506 138% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.495840266223 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 996.3 704.065955056 142% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.740449438202 135% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 31.0 23.0359550562 135% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 60.8041677388 60.3974514979 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 169.526315789 118.986275619 142% => OK
Words per sentence: 31.6315789474 23.4991977007 135% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.36842105263 5.21951772744 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 7.0 4.97078651685 141% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => 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: 0.230137116895 0.243740707755 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0903797351683 0.0831039109588 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0430649796725 0.0758088955206 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.130413692538 0.150359130593 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0305480927962 0.0667264976115 46% => 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: 19.6 14.1392134831 139% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 31.55 48.8420337079 65% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.6 12.1743820225 136% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.4 12.1639044944 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.54 8.38706741573 114% => OK
difficult_words: 166.0 100.480337079 165% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.5 11.8971910112 164% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.4 11.2143820225 128% => OK
text_standard: 20.0 11.7820224719 170% => 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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