A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college
Requiring all students of a nation to study the same national curriculum may seem like a solution to making sure that no student is left behind in knowledge, and that students across the nation being educated with the same curriculum will share many similarities in cultural and logical reasoning. While there are indeed perks of national curriculum such as easier preparation of educational resources on the part of teachers, and a greater ability to measure students across the nation using the same metric; if the intent of a national curriculum is to however, bridge the gaps in knowledge within individual students in the nation, it is doubtful that this purpose will succeed.
In Taiwan, a 12 year national curriculum has been put in place to ensure that all students will study the same material from the point of enrolment into elementary school all the way till graduation from high school. The assumption for this proposal is that students regardless of socio-economical standings will have access to same educational material, so they will be on a more even playing field. One may think this is plausible, since everyone studies the same material right? In reality however, this has only created more iniquity between students as students who are more fortunate can attend after school classes or hire tutors to broaden their knowledge, while the less fortunate students can only rely on the meager source of knowledge provided by the national curriculum. Indeed, surveys and sociology experiments have shown that there is marked decrease in the percentage of students from working class families being admitted to top universities, and a sharp increase in the percentage of students from upper class families.
The previous example shows how this national curriculum may come into play for traditional pathways of education. Both the statement and the example however neglects the very purpose of vocational and specialty schools (such as music/dance academy). From a biological perspective, laryngeal muscles attains its mature anatomy as early as the age of eight, same case with neurons (especially those of intrafusal twitch fibers which grow very little pass puberty), meaning that training for professions such as dancing and singing should start at a very young age or progress will be hampered. It is not uncommon to hear young piano or opera prodigies mastering their art with just few years of practice, but have you ever heard of any performance artists who miraculously become proficient at that art only first learning it at the age of 22?
Lastly, if we consider the nation as a whole, we are inherently made up of many different localities where some students may be inclined to learn about their own local culture such as arts and language. It is doubtful that a single curriculum will be able to address these variations and thus the students will restricted from learning that is inherently in themselves. After all, it is these varied interests and studies that enable them to choose a major for their college. For example, if a student wants to learn a foreign language during his/her schooling and a single curriculum doesn't have the option to do so, he/she would be deprived to something which is of interest to him/her.
In conclusion, although the perks of national curriculum such as easier preparation of educational material for teachers or a uniform standard to measure students upon, it is outweighed by the flaws which it may entail. In the end, it seems critical to ensure a diverse curriculum so students can freely choose what they want to pursue and study, and that no further inequality is created in education for people of different socio-economical stances.
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Suggestion: many
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Suggestion: restrict
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, lastly, may, so, thus, while, after all, for example, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 11.3162921348 159% => OK
Pronoun: 46.0 33.0505617978 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 87.0 58.6224719101 148% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3102.0 2235.4752809 139% => OK
No of words: 608.0 442.535393258 137% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.10197368421 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.9656475924 4.55969084622 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79024163957 2.79657885939 100% => OK
Unique words: 308.0 215.323595506 143% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.506578947368 0.4932671777 103% => OK
syllable_count: 981.0 704.065955056 139% => 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: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.10617977528 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.2370786517 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 35.0 23.0359550562 152% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 81.05186515 60.3974514979 134% => OK
Chars per sentence: 182.470588235 118.986275619 153% => OK
Words per sentence: 35.7647058824 23.4991977007 152% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.94117647059 5.21951772744 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.346339888148 0.243740707755 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.110986014807 0.0831039109588 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.101726717409 0.0758088955206 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.197833672462 0.150359130593 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.12486434546 0.0667264976115 187% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 20.5 14.1392134831 145% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.95 48.8420337079 74% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.9 12.1743820225 139% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.89 12.1639044944 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.24 8.38706741573 110% => OK
difficult_words: 149.0 100.480337079 148% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 30.5 11.8971910112 256% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 16.0 11.2143820225 143% => OK
text_standard: 31.0 11.7820224719 263% => The average readability is very high. Good job!
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 Out of 6
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