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 claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure

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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 claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.

Having a common national curriculum in school is beneficial for the students and would shape them to be better citizens of the nation and the world. It would serve as a common platform for understanding the subjects of national scope and enable students to be more decisive about what they would like to pursue in college.

In order to have the youth of a nation become responsible global citizens, it would be necessary for them to know the broader aspects of the contemporary world around them. Further, being citizens of their own country, it would be their duty to know a fair bit about their nation such as their culture, history, demographics, languages, resources, economy and so on. Such an understanding can be assured if there exists a standard nation-wide curriculum that would accomodate for those subjects. When subjects like history, civics and geography are made mandatory in school, every high school graduate would have adequate knowledge about their country.

Many young high school students would be unsure about what they would like to pursue later in college. When exposed to a standardized curriculum which exposes them to a number of possible career paths, the students would be able to recognize their interests and choose the course of their interest to pursue in college. Courses like science and mathematics would interest some while bore others. But the basic understanding of such elementary subjects is essential for survival in the present world.

Further, having a common nation-wide curriculum would help in having common nation-wide tests which can be used to assess the performance of the students in a national level. Such examinations can be used as a standard to evaluate a student's academic performance.

While it is arguable that students studying subjects that do not align with their interests is a waste of time, such subjects could nevertheless turn out to be useful in the future. Steve Jobs himself took up art related courses like calligraphy which years later helped Apple design multiple font faces we now see in word processing software.

It is therefore more beneficial for students to learn a common nation-wide curriculum which would give them the right exposure for them to later pursue a career in their field of interest.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 232, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a student' or simply 'students'?
Suggestion: a student; students
...s can be used as a standard to evaluate a students academic performance. While it is ar...
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'if', 'nevertheless', 'so', 'therefore', 'while', 'such as']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.241895261845 0.240241500013 101% => OK
Verbs: 0.142144638404 0.157235817809 90% => OK
Adjectives: 0.11970074813 0.0880659088768 136% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0299251870324 0.0497285424764 60% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0598503740648 0.0444667217837 135% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.117206982544 0.12292977631 95% => OK
Participles: 0.0299251870324 0.0406280797675 74% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.76017047774 2.79330140395 99% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0399002493766 0.030933414821 129% => OK
Particles: 0.00498753117207 0.0016655270985 299% => OK
Determiners: 0.0822942643392 0.0997080785238 83% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0423940149626 0.0249443105267 170% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0249376558603 0.0148568991511 168% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2305.0 2732.02544248 84% => OK
No of words: 373.0 452.878318584 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.17962466488 6.0361032391 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.39467950092 4.58838876751 96% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.375335120643 0.366273622748 102% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.270777479893 0.280924506359 96% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.230563002681 0.200843997647 115% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.112600536193 0.132149295362 85% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76017047774 2.79330140395 99% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 219.290929204 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.479892761394 0.48968727796 98% => OK
Word variations: 50.6631960184 55.4138127331 91% => OK
How many sentences: 15.0 20.6194690265 73% => OK
Sentence length: 24.8666666667 23.380412469 106% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.9248004037 59.4972553346 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 153.666666667 141.124799967 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.8666666667 23.380412469 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.466666666667 0.674092028746 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.94800884956 121% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.21349557522 19% => OK
Readability: 51.9444146559 51.4728631049 101% => OK
Elegance: 1.67741935484 1.64882698954 102% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.35621376306 0.391690518653 91% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.126357641225 0.123202303941 103% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0928235710231 0.077325440228 120% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.611392471399 0.547984918172 112% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.194293134139 0.149214159877 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.160953406408 0.161403998019 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.104135211213 0.0892212321368 117% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.284316052944 0.385218514788 74% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.123500253208 0.0692045440612 178% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.24450494469 0.275328986314 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0709633018689 0.0653680567796 109% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.4325221239 125% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 5.30420353982 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88274336283 41% => OK
Positive topic words: 13.0 7.22455752212 180% => OK
Negative topic words: 0.0 3.66592920354 0% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 1.0 2.70907079646 37% => OK
Total topic words: 14.0 13.5995575221 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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