A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college.

Essay topics:

A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college.

The school curriculum for students in any nation should reflect a healthy mix of various subjects and fields of studies. There are many nations where the curriculum differs from one school to the other depending on the various educational boards present in the country. This practice is healthy and should not be make way for a national curriculum which is taught in all schools.

Before securing admission into colleges, students gain foundational understanding of subjects at the school level. Even though the basic subjects of study remain more or less the same across schools, the curriculum is subject to variations. There are certain boards which lay an emphasis on choosing electives at an early age, whereas others bring in the choice of subjects at a later stage of school. The curriculum across may also be different regarding the nitty gritties of subject matter being taught. Some schools emphasise on the global scenario related to a particular subject while others are more rooted in the domestic aspects. Still other schools, like convent schools, might have an added focus on religious studies along with studies related to the sciences and arts. Such a choice of curriculum caters to different needs and aspirations of different students. Parents also put their children into different schools keeping in mind these considerations.

The state should involve itself to the least extent in such affairs in order to avoid an autocratic rule. The introduction of a standardized national curriculum can lead to assembly line approach to education wherein every school is churning out similarly educated and skilled students in to the real world. There will be no prevalence of differently skilled and independent thinking students. School education lays the base for higher studies which are pursued by students depending on their invidual organic experience. Many students choose their schools consciously in order to prepare themselves for the kind of professional they desire in the future. By imposing the same curriculum in all schools the state will be robbing the education system of its diversity.

That being said, it is obviously necessary that all schools should be in fulfilment of a minimum basic criteria in order ensure good quality education to all students enrolled, in order for them to be suitably qualified to apply to colleges in the country as well as abroad, if they so desire. All schools must follow a registered and certified curriculum. The state must ensure that basic education needs of all students are fulfilled which aids in their knowledge growth and qualifies them for the labour market as well.

By deciding upon a same national curriculum in all schools of a country, gates are also opened for the misuse of peddling propogandist education in schools. This provision can be abused by political parties or certain interest groups in spreading ideas, themes and theories which spread their own convictions. This can make the education being received by students singularly prejudiced, colored by biases, and highly opinionated which at the same time prevents them from going about their studies in an objective manner. It can be argued that a standardized curriculum can help in creating a level playing for all students from different backgrounds so that they have an equal chance of getting into a good college. But curriculum does not have as much of a role to play in this as does better infrastructure, facilities and good faculty.

Hence, the state should not push for a uniform national curriculum for schools in the country as it would risk losing the independent novely of each school's method of education and also runs the risk of misuse to propogate opinionated pieces masquerading as objective knowledge.

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Average: 6.6 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, if, may, regarding, similarly, so, still, well, whereas, while, kind of, as well as, more or less

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 14.8657303371 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 33.0505617978 85% => OK
Preposition: 93.0 58.6224719101 159% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3169.0 2235.4752809 142% => OK
No of words: 609.0 442.535393258 138% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.20361247947 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.96768813016 4.55969084622 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78697408089 2.79657885939 100% => OK
Unique words: 290.0 215.323595506 135% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.47619047619 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 972.9 704.065955056 138% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.8025097851 60.3974514979 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.884615385 118.986275619 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.4230769231 23.4991977007 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.42307692308 5.21951772744 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
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: 0.258095800702 0.243740707755 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0789991443324 0.0831039109588 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0621455283412 0.0758088955206 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.154450834093 0.150359130593 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0623576477299 0.0667264976115 93% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 14.1392134831 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.8420337079 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.18 12.1639044944 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.64 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 149.0 100.480337079 148% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => 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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