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 these examples shape your position.
The recommendation calls that a nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college. However, too many issues immediately arise when considering such a policy. As such, although teaching students the same academic material will prepare them to be active, engaged citizens in a federally-governed nation (especially nation-states), there are too many issues involved with doing so.
Because a nation is comprised of several provinces or municipalities, each has its own economic differences that make a uniform curriculum unimpactful. There are differences even within those provinces. Westchester, one of the wealthiest counties in the United States, is divided into about 43 municipalities. While the township of Scarsdale is made up of mostly white or Asian individuals and has a high standard of living, New Rochelle is much more diverse, especially with regards to the residents' jobs. Scarsdale residents typically work in New York City; many New Rochelle residents work locally, likely in the service sector at restaurants or car dealerships. A curriculum in Scarsdale would focus on economics, finance, mathematics, science, and even engineering. On the other hand, New Rochelle students might find a much broader and diversified curriculum to be useful, as many of them will not continue to college. Teaching them the basics of restaurant management, for example, would be useful for later work as mid-level hospitality managers. These economic differences only indicate that students should take courses that will prepare them for their next chapter in life.
Onboarding teachers for a national curriculum would make a national curriculum too difficult to implement one. Because teachers would be expected to teach the same information, it seems reasonable that they would be expected to learn such through a similar process. However, how would teachers be prepared for a national curriculum? Will they be taught what to teach at their respective graduate program? That brings up the question of whether their graduate programs should be involved, but graduate schools are independent institutions and therefore not required to follow what a federal board of education would ask of them. Considering this difficulty, a national curriculum is too difficult to place upon the teachers.
It is too difficult to require the same national curriculum if there is no such definition of its so-called "same"-ness. What exactly would the "same" be? Do teachers teach the same information on the same day? Some classes move more quickly because they are honors-based courses; because others are remedial, they might move more slowly and not teach that information until a month afterward. Additionally, there would be significant differences in scheduling. Some schools follow different calendars: States in the mid-Atlantic provide days-off for Jewish religious holidays, like Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah; others do not give time off for such. It is unfathomable to require a national curriculum if it is not entirely clear--or if it will ever be clear--what the "same" national curriculum is.
Although the recommendation is too difficult to execute, it deserves some merit. All public schools in the United States follow the Common Core, and, although it is not a perfect system (by far), it has been an attempt to create a "same" national curriculum. Therefore, the federal government has already taken measures to implement the recommendation. Additionally, there are some basic core courses that a nation should require of its students. Each student should know basic math skills, including geometry and algebra. They should know the history of its country and the philosophy of law in order to prepare them to be knowledgeable citizens. Rather than make a same national curriculum, a nation should consider which courses are absolutely necessary and allow its individual provinces to decide how they will be taught and what additional courses should be included in the curriculum.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 18, Rule ID: IS_COMPRISED_OF[1]
Message: Did you mean 'comprises' or 'consists of' or 'is composed of'?
Suggestion: comprises; consists of; is composed of
...lved with doing so. Because a nation is comprised of several provinces or municipalities, ea...
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Line 5, column 421, Rule ID: WHETHER[3]
Message: Wordiness: Shorten this phrase to the shortest possible suggestion.
Suggestion: whether; the question whether
...ective graduate program? That brings up the question of whether their graduate programs should be invol...
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Line 9, column 228, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...y far, it has been an attempt to create a 'same' national curriculum. T...
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Line 9, column 745, Rule ID: ABSOLUTELY_ESSENTIAL[1]
Message: Use simply 'necessary'.
Suggestion: necessary
...ation should consider which courses are absolutely necessary and allow its individual provinces to d...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, so, therefore, while, for example, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 33.0 19.5258426966 169% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 25.0 12.4196629213 201% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 15.0 14.8657303371 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 33.0505617978 124% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 68.0 58.6224719101 116% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3460.0 2235.4752809 155% => OK
No of words: 628.0 442.535393258 142% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.50955414013 5.05705443957 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.00598923014 4.55969084622 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.21145460929 2.79657885939 115% => OK
Unique words: 298.0 215.323595506 138% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.474522292994 0.4932671777 96% => OK
syllable_count: 1098.9 704.065955056 156% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 9.0 3.10617977528 290% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 32.0 20.2370786517 158% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 53.2241721401 60.3974514979 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.125 118.986275619 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.625 23.4991977007 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.1875 5.21951772744 42% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => 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: 18.0 4.83258426966 372% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.271848221666 0.243740707755 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0765659460782 0.0831039109588 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0967283992664 0.0758088955206 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.177730197311 0.150359130593 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0741498253498 0.0667264976115 111% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.1392134831 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 48.8420337079 90% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.68 12.1639044944 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.58 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 159.0 100.480337079 158% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => 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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