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.
Education is a crucial pillar stone in all societies. Every step of education is as important as the next - be it elementary to high school, high school to college, and finally college to what will hopefully be a successful and fruitful career. The curriculum plays a vital role in this education process as it determines what the student will learn. Although beneficial in some aspects, all students should not be required to study the same national curriculum. It would be warranted to discuss the pros and cons of adopting a national curriculum.
A standard curriculum would generalize all the students under the same umbrella and fails to take into account the diversity across the nation. Every society that is part of this nation will differ in some regard to language, culture, food, practices, etc. and a national curriculum would strip these societies of their individualities. It is well known that in many nations around the world, there are several languages practiced and spoken within each nation. For example, in the Philippines there are over 700 languages spoken across the country, with Tagalog as the primary language. Although all students in the country are required to learn Tagalog, most schools also require their students to take classes in the language of their orignating city. If a standard curriculum were in place, students outside Manila would be stripped of the opportunity to learn the language of their native origin.
Another reason a standard national curriculum would not be beneficial is that it fails to take into account the difference in the quality of schools. There are private schools and public schools, and a compromise would have to be made between the two as to what curriculum should be taught. Will the public schools be able to afford this newly adopted curriculum? Will the private schools lower their standards to meet this curriculum? What about students that are home schooled? Will they be denied entry into college as their parents were unable to teach their children this standard curriculum? It is a gray area that again fails to acknowledge the differences that are inherently prevalent in society.
Furthermore, if all students were to study the same national curriculum then all students entering college would possess the same ideas and there would be no innovation and progression in conversation.
On the other hand however, a benefit to adopting a national curriculum is that it creates a standard against which makes it easier for colleges to compare its students - this is why many colleges and universities around the globe require an SAT, A-Level, TOEFL or even GRE score.
In conclusion, although there are some benefits to implementing a standard curriculum, many nations continue to thrive and produce contributing members of society by embracing diversity.
Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'finally', 'furthermore', 'however', 'if', 'so', 'then', 'well', 'as to', 'for example', 'in conclusion', 'on the other hand']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.237051792829 0.240241500013 99% => OK
Verbs: 0.159362549801 0.157235817809 101% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0876494023904 0.0880659088768 100% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0278884462151 0.0497285424764 56% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0338645418327 0.0444667217837 76% => OK
Prepositions: 0.107569721116 0.12292977631 88% => OK
Participles: 0.0378486055777 0.0406280797675 93% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.79998097661 2.79330140395 100% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0438247011952 0.030933414821 142% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.0016655270985 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.123505976096 0.0997080785238 124% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0298804780876 0.0249443105267 120% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0199203187251 0.0148568991511 134% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2847.0 2732.02544248 104% => OK
No of words: 461.0 452.878318584 102% => OK
Chars per words: 6.17570498915 6.0361032391 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63367139033 4.58838876751 101% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.39262472885 0.366273622748 107% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.331887201735 0.280924506359 118% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.232104121475 0.200843997647 116% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.123644251627 0.132149295362 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79998097661 2.79330140395 100% => OK
Unique words: 217.0 219.290929204 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.470715835141 0.48968727796 96% => OK
Word variations: 52.9325540756 55.4138127331 96% => OK
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6194690265 107% => OK
Sentence length: 20.9545454545 23.380412469 90% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.741422533 59.4972553346 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.409090909 141.124799967 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.9545454545 23.380412469 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.590909090909 0.674092028746 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.94800884956 121% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.21349557522 0% => OK
Readability: 54.1432656281 51.4728631049 105% => OK
Elegance: 1.72972972973 1.64882698954 105% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.452246603284 0.391690518653 115% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.128325081004 0.123202303941 104% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0960849457461 0.077325440228 124% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.557604218418 0.547984918172 102% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.217016795342 0.149214159877 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.181472017342 0.161403998019 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0903941939799 0.0892212321368 101% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.299700582386 0.385218514788 78% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.159404176499 0.0692045440612 230% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.277804300581 0.275328986314 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0889685132971 0.0653680567796 136% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.4325221239 77% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.30420353982 94% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.88274336283 184% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 8.0 7.22455752212 111% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 3.66592920354 109% => OK
Neutral topic words: 7.0 2.70907079646 258% => OK
Total topic words: 19.0 13.5995575221 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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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: This is not the final score. 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.