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.

While it is true that respecting students' own interests is one of the most important things teachers should learn from their very first lesson, to be honest, requiring all secondary schools to have their own distinctive teaching curriculum is impossible. What the issue proposes is not feasible, for that it requires extra budget and an equal distribution of education resources.

It is a wise move to set the same national curriculum in secondary schools. What people should be conscious of is that, other than curriculum, schools have a lot more to worry about. There could be way more old facilities waiting to be improved, old building need replenishing, and periodically, these schools have to hire new teachers, who either graduate from top universities or already has rich experience, to rejuvenate the campus and to improve the teaching quality. All these things require the funding support. Under such circumstances, the money that can be allocated to the curriculum set is limited, which is also reasonable. It might work in some rich foreign language school that advanced facilities, furnished buildings, talented teacher and colorful after-school activities exist compatibly, but what is the point if students in poor schools are optional to register in Latin and Art History but have to sit in a classroom with broken windows? In such case, requiring students to study the same national curriculum is because that t桃those officers in education department like to suffocate the creativity of secondary school students, but that the other choice is just not reasonable.

This issue also brings about a question concerning the distribution of talented people. As I believe, one of the important reasons why the nation should ask schools to provide the same curriculum is that, in most schools, as I have mentioned in the last paragraph, are not able to provide students with top teachers. Consequently, when all secondary schools are free and encouraged to have their own curriculum, poor schools fail to satisfy their students' needs, while those schools in developed cities would enjoy the rich resources. This could pose a serious social problem, enlarging the inequity of education. When these students confront each other in a national exam, it is obvious that students poorly taught would get fewer chance to get into good colleges.

To sum up, what the issue claims is, by all means, reasonable and feasible, despite the fact that it might be accused of lacking imagination and creativity. But in today's society, in which the discrepancy between the rich and the poor is enlarging, "liberal art for all" is just a fancy.

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Average: 6.6 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, if, second, so, while, it is true, to sum up

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 33.0505617978 88% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 58.6224719101 94% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2236.0 2235.4752809 100% => OK
No of words: 428.0 442.535393258 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.22429906542 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.548423998 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87910010227 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 226.0 215.323595506 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.528037383178 0.4932671777 107% => OK
syllable_count: 683.1 704.065955056 97% => 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: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 9.0 4.38483146067 205% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.2370786517 79% => 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: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 80.9126651087 60.3974514979 134% => OK
Chars per sentence: 139.75 118.986275619 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.75 23.4991977007 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.75 5.21951772744 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.225421925424 0.243740707755 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0798883413981 0.0831039109588 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0743232949669 0.0758088955206 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131263341986 0.150359130593 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0564767629669 0.0667264976115 85% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.5 14.1392134831 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 12.1639044944 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.76 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 100.480337079 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.


Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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