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 those examples shape your position.
No national should require that every individual has to learn exactly the same as his or her peers. Public schools and the provision of free education also implies a coherency of educational standards and a national curriculum. However, whereas a national curriculum that is mandatory for every student before entering college might provide equality of educational opportunity, it can also lead to a lack of individuality and development of individual strengths. Following this, a national curriculum might not be the best option for a nations educational sector.
First of all, a national curriculum is mostly highly static and does not change frequently. This might be a problem when technological developments are fast, dynamic and change the need for the labour market. Therefore, the national curriculum might not be as adaptive as it should. For example, even if the Swiss education system is one of the best-ranked systems in the world, every pupil has to learn how to knit - a relict from the early 20th century. But what about engaging with technology, or learn to program code? It is this reluctance and inability to change of a politically defined national curriculum that can result in an aberration from a sustainable, future-oriented educational system. A more flexible curriculum that is open to individual choices and that can vary in a certain degree from school to school might be more competitive and beneficial for the society.
Secondly, not every individual has the same strengths and weaknesses. Some might be better at mathematics, computational science and physics, while others are stronger writing, critical thinking or art. A national curriculum that is the same for every individual for the first 9 years of education does not focus on this individual level but has a strong bias towards the needs of society and history. Following this, the national curriculum does not provide the degree of freedom in educational choices an individual would need to have to fully develop his or her strengths. Adding to this, a fixed curriculum is inherently the antithesis to independent and critical thinking - the state provides and decides what the young students need to know. The lack of independence and freedom of choice in the public education sector can be disadvantageous for many students and, following this, the future society.
However, there might be qualified arguments in favour of a national curriculum. A national curriculum is an egalitarian approach to education, which tries to provide equal opportunities for every child, adolescent and young adult. Adding to that, the state might have a bigger picture and a macroeconomic and macro societal view than the individual who primarily - according to the concept of a homo economicus - maximises his or her utility.
In summary, there are strong arguments to soften the rigidity of a national curriculum to adjust to technological, societal and economical changes. A curriculum that allows a certain freedom of individual choice and independence might be beneficial for the whole nation. Even though the ideal of a national curriculum providing a more level playing field and improve equality is noble ideal, it remains an ideal. A national curriculum has many disadvantageous and may leave everyone worse off.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 535, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a nation' or simply 'nations'?
Suggestion: a nation; nations
...iculum might not be the best option for a nations educational sector. First of all, a ...
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Line 9, column 129, Rule ID: ECONOMICAL_ECONOMIC[1]
Message: Did you mean 'economic' (=connected with economy)?
Suggestion: economic
...o adjust to technological, societal and economical changes. A curriculum that allows a cer...
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Line 9, column 174, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[3]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'certain freedom'.
Suggestion: certain freedom
...mical changes. A curriculum that allows a certain freedom of individual choice and independence m...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, whereas, while, as to, for example, in summary, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.4196629213 161% => OK
Conjunction : 29.0 14.8657303371 195% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 33.0505617978 76% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 58.6224719101 92% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2780.0 2235.4752809 124% => OK
No of words: 524.0 442.535393258 118% => OK
Chars per words: 5.30534351145 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.7844588288 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.08984124454 2.79657885939 110% => OK
Unique words: 237.0 215.323595506 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.452290076336 0.4932671777 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 909.0 704.065955056 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 13.0 4.99550561798 260% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.8407467442 60.3974514979 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.833333333 118.986275619 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8333333333 23.4991977007 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.375 5.21951772744 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.196936739761 0.243740707755 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0735173279735 0.0831039109588 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0462659129437 0.0758088955206 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.132036115559 0.150359130593 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0315201422158 0.0667264976115 47% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 14.1392134831 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 48.8420337079 85% => OK
smog_index: 13.0 7.92365168539 164% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.52 12.1639044944 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.35 8.38706741573 100% => OK
difficult_words: 122.0 100.480337079 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 11.8971910112 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => 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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