“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.
The recommendation states that a nation should strictly follow one set of national curriculum throughout the country for school education. There are multiple reasons for bolstering this recommendation considering the welfare of the students in their later stage of life when they enter the competitive world. Also, we need to look at the other side of the coin to ensure satisfaction of students at school level. Hence, the process should not be completely autocratic and everyone involved should have some say while designing the education model.
The sole purpose of primary education is to build the foundation so that students can be prepared to face global challenges once they enter college. While designing the curriculum, it is essential to look into the curriculum of foreign nations as well as thoroughly study the requirements which need to be fulfilled at the national level. This will ensure that students are well prepared to compete with peers while appearing for examinations at national and international level. Thus, a central framework is required to plan the curriculum considering these aspects which will be helpful for students while pursuing their degree level education.
There is no doubt that planning of the curriculum should involve the central level of government, but at the same time there should be some degree of freedom given to the states as well. This comes into play specially in the case of languages. For example - In India, if you stay in Maharashtra, it is advised that you are fluent in Marathi, which is the local language, while you are interacting with the majority of the citizens and specially when visiting government offices. Whereas, in South India, it is better if you have a good command in tamil or Telegu. Therefore, centre can make a basic outline in the curriculum that it is necessary for students to learn 3 languages during their school education - English, as it is common language worldwide, second is Hindi which is common in the country and third should be the local language of the particular state. Thus, international, national as well as local factors have been taken into account.
The main players of the education system are teachers and students. The opinion of children, professors and their parents should also be considered as a feedback while planning and revising the curriculum. It is a well known fact that one solution will not satisfy everyone's needs. If the teachers are not satisfied with the national curriculum and their voice is not being heard at the central level while complaining from a small town, there is a very good possibility that the teacher will lose his interest in his profession. This will surely have a negative impact on his teaching as well as the academic performance of the students. Thus, while making the centre in charge of the curriculum there should be arrangements so that teachers and students can convey their dissatisfaction and accordingly amendements can be incorporated into the curriculum.
To sum it up, it is vital to have a national curriculum so that citizens can transform into good global citizens later in life. At the same time, along with the central government even the state government should be given some decision powers. Lastly, even the primary participants of the education system - teachers and students should also be a part of the process while making modifications. Therefore, the planning of a curriculum at school level should be conducted in a democratic way.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, but, hence, if, lastly, look, second, so, therefore, third, thus, well, whereas, while, for example, no doubt, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 35.0 19.5258426966 179% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 23.0 12.4196629213 185% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 33.0505617978 118% => OK
Preposition: 69.0 58.6224719101 118% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 12.9106741573 139% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2937.0 2235.4752809 131% => OK
No of words: 574.0 442.535393258 130% => OK
Chars per words: 5.11672473868 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.89472135074 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86850884259 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 245.0 215.323595506 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.426829268293 0.4932671777 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 924.3 704.065955056 131% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.0862227692 60.3974514979 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.375 118.986275619 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.9166666667 23.4991977007 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.83333333333 5.21951772744 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.83258426966 186% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.240715429171 0.243740707755 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0730731555131 0.0831039109588 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0582393783121 0.0758088955206 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.15637767605 0.150359130593 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0576153113459 0.0667264976115 86% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 14.1392134831 103% => 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: 12.71 12.1639044944 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.19 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 124.0 100.480337079 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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