A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college.
Having a standardized national curriculum could be troublesome as it could encourage close-mindedness and inhibit diversity.
Currently, our government is made up of older, white men. This means many of the decisions made around the new standardized curriculum are made by them. This could be problematic as they might have a very closed idea of what should be included in the curriculum. Such issues include hiding poor historical choices made by the US, for example, slavery of Africans or the genocide of Native Americans. Another issue could be ignoring or not acknowledging accomplishments of people of color. One might notice this on a student's reading list when they look down and see all classic novels written by white people, and men in particular. Without a more inclusive education our children could grow up sheltered, close-minded, and possibly, bigoted.
A strict, standardized curriculum will also inhibit diversity and creativity. It is known that diversity of people, knowledge, and experiences enriches learning environments. Thus, by narrowing the scope of what students might learn we are not only limiting their school learning environments, but their future work environments. A standardized curriculum will make cookie cutter students that will turn into cookie cutter adults that cannot bring new ideas to the table. One could expect to see a stifling of creativity and innovation in our work places, universities, and lives, in addition to our K-12 schools.
One potential benefit to installing a standardized curriculum would be consistency and quality control in K-12 education. This could bring up the quality of education in areas that are deficient and even the playing field for students trying to move on to higher education. There can be a lot of competition between school now, so making the curriculum the same ensures that all students across the country have received the same information in their education.
While there are potential benefits to standardizing the national curriculum, it is more likely to see an increase in close-mindedness and a decrease in diversity. This would only hurt our country's issues around racism and stifle creativity and innovation.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, look, so, thus, while, as to, for example, in addition, in particular
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.5258426966 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.3162921348 53% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 33.0505617978 79% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 58.6224719101 75% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1870.0 2235.4752809 84% => OK
No of words: 346.0 442.535393258 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.40462427746 5.05705443957 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31289638616 4.55969084622 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.13638017744 2.79657885939 112% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 215.323595506 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.540462427746 0.4932671777 110% => OK
syllable_count: 586.8 704.065955056 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 32.6148493031 60.3974514979 54% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 103.888888889 118.986275619 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2222222222 23.4991977007 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.66666666667 5.21951772744 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 10.2758426966 39% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.83258426966 186% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.151594692365 0.243740707755 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0442096707359 0.0831039109588 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0469743706217 0.0758088955206 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0892425836624 0.150359130593 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0241374788081 0.0667264976115 36% => 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: 13.6 14.1392134831 96% => 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: 14.04 12.1639044944 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.69 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 100.480337079 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 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.