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.
Some may argue, that a nation should require its students to study and learn a universal curriculum until entering college. In the grand scheme of things, this may appear to be a good idea for unity, collaboration, and a set understanding for post-secondary education. However, this argument fails to consider many key factors that allow students to flourish in their personal learning habits.
First, having a national curriculum does not encourage teachers to teach to their student’s specific learning habits and needs. This curriculum would have tests and requirements that the teachers must meet by a certain deadline, causing them become strapped to a tight schedule. By being tied to a tight schedule, it does not allow teachers time to slow down to cater to individual student’s needs. As a result of being tied to a set curriculum and schedule, teachers would only teach on what their students are going to be tested on, dismissing the creativity and uniqueness of each student.
As a result of making teachers teach to a set curriculum, it neglects the fact that students gain knowledge and learn new information in a plethora of ways. A set curriculum, does not encourage students to be creative and “think outside of the box”. Instead, it puts students in a “box” and requires them to think alike and answer questions in an identical way to achieve the right answer.
Finally, the argument does not take geographic differences into consideration. Members of a nation share a nationality, but there is a wide range of geographic differences throughout a nation that needs to be considered when creating a curriculum for students. For example, it would not be appropriate for a first grader in Alaska to be tested on characteristics of an armadillo or even know what this type of animal looks like. However, identifying and naming characteristics of this animal would be a reasonable test question for a first grader in Texas.
In conclusion, the argument is not practical without convincing answers to the questions stated above. If these questions go unanswered, one is left with the impression that the argument is simply wishful thinking rather than substantive evidence. The argument could be strengthen if it stated the facts and had evidence to support them. While having a set curriculum could have benefits, the argument fails to address key factors and overlooks the benefit of individual students.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
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Message: Consider replacing "in an identical way" with adverb for "identical"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...hem to think alike and answer questions in an identical way to achieve the right answer. Finall...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...tical way to achieve the right answer. Finally, the argument does not take geog...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, look, may, second, so, then, while, for example, in conclusion, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 14.8657303371 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 33.0505617978 73% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 58.6224719101 96% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2064.0 2235.4752809 92% => OK
No of words: 397.0 442.535393258 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.19899244332 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46372701284 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.11452375717 2.79657885939 111% => OK
Unique words: 202.0 215.323595506 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.508816120907 0.4932671777 103% => OK
syllable_count: 633.6 704.065955056 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 29.418909263 60.3974514979 49% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 114.666666667 118.986275619 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0555555556 23.4991977007 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.05555555556 5.21951772744 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.146350327938 0.243740707755 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0535261620769 0.0831039109588 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0709232172007 0.0758088955206 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0871138881296 0.150359130593 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.053721628717 0.0667264976115 81% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 14.1392134831 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.88 12.1639044944 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.51 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 100.480337079 95% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.