"A nation should require all its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college rather than allow schools in different parts of the nation to determine which academic courses to offer."
Disparities in school curriculums can cause disparities in the quality of the teaching. I know that my high school, for one, offered no philosophy classes, which made me envy my friends who went to high schools that did. On the other hand, my high school offered a wide variety of English courses, such as a class on the Romantic poets and a class on Gothic horror, that other schools did not. My experience and the experience of many students show the flaws of an educational system that allows for such a variety in curriculums across America, but the solution to this would not lie in a hegemonic national curriculum. This could only discourage creativity and advancement for the students, and could have a negative impact on the ability of students to questions the narrative set forward for them.
A national curriculum would be disadvantageous to teachers, and through them disadvantageous to the students. If the curriculum were set by the government, it would disallow teachers to propose their own classes to the school and limit their ability to teach to their strengths. Many teachers being forced to teach one way would certainly feel constrained or unenthusiastic, and this could lead to a dip in educational quality.
Furthermore, a national curriculum would not go unnoticed by the students, and those able to push ahead of their peers in some subjects would be immobilized. If there is no way to move up to a higher level in her classes, a student may not feel the need to work as hard as she can. For instance, many students in my own year would not have worked as hard in the eighth grade had there been no Advanced Placement courses to get into for the next year; these students and I felt we had to demonstrate our worth to colleges by being in these classes. A blanket national curriculum could lead to the students with the most potential to come into college less prepared than they may have been without it.
Lastly, a national curriculum would create one narrative to be taught nationally. In America, a national curriculum could have some benefit in that way; it could, for instance, stomp out the way creationism is still taught in some southern schools. However, one curriculum would require that all things would be taught one way, and nothing taught could be questioned. When I was in elementary school, we were taught that Columbus discovered America and that the Pilgrims were peaceful colonists. In high school I had teachers who were willing to disabuse their students of these notions. With a national curriculum, only one perspective would be presented, and it would be adhered to. This could erode the critical skills of future generations.
A national curriculum would certainly have some benefits. It is wrong that some people - more often than not, the economically disadvantaged - suffer from poorer standards of education across America. However, a national curriculum promotes uniformity that could staunch advancement.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...formity that could staunch advancement.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, furthermore, however, if, lastly, may, so, still, thus, for instance, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 27.0 12.4196629213 217% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 46.0 33.0505617978 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 65.0 58.6224719101 111% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2483.0 2235.4752809 111% => OK
No of words: 496.0 442.535393258 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0060483871 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.71922212354 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87116646635 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 238.0 215.323595506 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.479838709677 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 765.0 704.065955056 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.77640449438 394% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.4801941359 60.3974514979 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.863636364 118.986275619 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5454545455 23.4991977007 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.59090909091 5.21951772744 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
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: 0.201561596837 0.243740707755 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0704981891401 0.0831039109588 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0518070653091 0.0758088955206 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.123600555706 0.150359130593 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0299553764834 0.0667264976115 45% => 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: 13.4 14.1392134831 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.8420337079 118% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 12.1639044944 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.78 8.38706741573 93% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 100.480337079 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => 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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