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

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

The recommendation states that the the national curriculum should be uniform across a nation until the students enter college. Stated in this way, the recommendation indeed has merit and should be adopted to enforce national education standards, remove influence of state politics, and ensure equality in education to all students.

An educational curriculum for government-run schools is usually prescribed by government bodies and accredited institutions. These bodies create comprehensive syllabi for students of all grades based on their average age, aptitude and a view of their educational needs of the future. The curriculum is well-researched theoretically, and regularly revised to accomodate changing patterns in learning and the sciences. It is evident that a lot of thought goes in to create a suitable curriculum for students. Hence, it is not only cost-effective, but imperative to leave the curriculum design to experts recognised by the biggest government body, rather than having multiple states coming up with their own syllabus.

Another important circumstance worth noting is the influence of regional or state politics. Politicians recognise the influence of education on the thought processes of students. When states are given the power to create or modify the curriculum of schools, they may use it to alter parts of text, especially in history and civics lessons, to support their narrative. Textbooks in India, for example, allow states to design curriculum due to the huge diversity among all the states. This has led to some unethical practices however, when elected leaders, such as those in Maharashtra, decided to pander to the masses and alter history books to reflect factual inaccuracies regarding certain historical figures. While science and mathematics may still be the same for all states, literature and social sciences play a huge role in changing the minsets of children.

Often universities require standardised entrance tests to be taken by all students. It helps to have a uniform curriculum for students of all states within a country to provide them with a fair chance at entrance tests. A standard curriculum ensures that all students are taught the same subjects and topics in school and no one has an unfair advantage in the exams. Standardizing the curriculum also helps in creating a uniform grading system. So a student with a 3.4 gpa in one state is no different from a student with the same grade from another state. It also helps universities determine the merit of students without having to take into account the differences in their educational background. Students today often face a problem in representing their grades to universities, while some students get an 80% with a more difficult school curriculum, there may be students scoring a solid 4.0 score due to their state's relatively easier curriculum. A uniform curriculum hence also enables universities to identify meritorious students equally.

The recommendation to enable uniform national curriculum is therefore a welcome move, and has various advantages for not only students, but colleges as well. Enforcing standardisation in education is a prerequisite towards ensuring equality in education for all students, and eliminates differences caused due to regional or state-level influences.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, however, if, may, regarding, so, still, therefore, well, while, for example, such as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.4196629213 40% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 11.3162921348 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 33.0505617978 64% => OK
Preposition: 74.0 58.6224719101 126% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 12.9106741573 147% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2811.0 2235.4752809 126% => OK
No of words: 513.0 442.535393258 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.47953216374 5.05705443957 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.75914943092 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.14338349994 2.79657885939 112% => OK
Unique words: 263.0 215.323595506 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.512670565302 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 909.0 704.065955056 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.097412182 60.3974514979 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.217391304 118.986275619 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.3043478261 23.4991977007 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.4347826087 5.21951772744 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.261817962462 0.243740707755 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0787705098823 0.0831039109588 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.093625928657 0.0758088955206 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.149503656043 0.150359130593 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0950508845119 0.0667264976115 142% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 14.1392134831 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 32.22 48.8420337079 66% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.1743820225 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.8 12.1639044944 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.19 8.38706741573 110% => OK
difficult_words: 145.0 100.480337079 144% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.8971910112 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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