"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."
The speaker here concentrates on the high school curriculum to be common in the nation. And I do agree with the statement, but having a common curriculum should not stop schools to include other subjects. As a diverse nation include types of traditions with a great history, schools in different parts of the nation should have the freedom to teach their students about their culture and traditions. This will make kids familiar with the origin of their culture, and will also help them continuing it.
A national curriculum will be beneficial to a nation in various aspects. Firstly, every student will have a similar educational base which will help create a fair competition level among students. Having a common education improves the chances for the colleges to evaluate one’s profile. Moreover, it will help them create a syllabus for the freshmen which will not be higher or lower level of what high schools have taught. It will include a blend of what should be taught from the prior knowledge of the students and what can be expected from them to know.
Elaborating the above point of prior knowledge, the national curriculum molds the educational system in a way that the students need to clear a certain level to take another academic step forming a chained system. This kind of education tests the student’s ability to understand and grasping power over the syllabus, ranking them according to the marks they score in the tests. This creates a healthy level of competition among students, providing them the platform to explore their extents. Secondly, some students do not stick to one school for certain reasons. For example, children whose parents are in transferable jobs. They have to shift with their families whenever required. So, if there will be a different curriculum in every state or school, it will be difficult for those students to cope-up with distinct syllabi. This problem can be solved with the common core curriculum in the nation.
Every student is different with distinct interests and talents, just the core curriculum isn’t enough for the schools, which gives them a chance to introduce other activities and subjects with the national curriculum. Restricting the schools to the national curriculum only will be a big disadvantage for the nation itself, as it won’t provide the students a platform to explore other than the restricted subjects. Every child has his own pace which makes him different from others. If a student isn’t doing well in the core subjects, it doesn’t make him any less of someone or doesn’t questions his ability to do better in future. Maybe he is talented in some other field, but because of the restrictions, school couldn’t provide the platform. For example, if the schools are restricted to the core curriculum only which does not cover beyond the academic sessions, without providing any other activities like sports, art or music. A student talented in art would be in loss in such cases, because a proper platform isn’t provided to him, displaying a hole in the educational system of the nation.
In the end, I’d like to conclude that it is important to have a national curriculum. However, schools should not be bounded to it and should have the freedom to make changes according to them.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 488, Rule ID: ADVISE_VBG[9]
Message: The verb 'help' is used with infinitive: 'to continue' or 'continue'.
Suggestion: to continue; continue
... their culture, and will also help them continuing it. A national curriculum will be b...
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Line 3, column 565, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...what can be expected from them to know. Elaborating the above point of prior kno...
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Line 7, column 647, Rule ID: IN_PAST[1]
Message: Did you mean: 'in the future'?
Suggestion: in the future
...os;t questions his ability to do better in future. Maybe he is talented in some other fie...
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Line 7, column 1135, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...n the educational system of the nation. In the end, I'd like to conclude th...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, well, for example, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.4196629213 161% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 37.0 33.0505617978 112% => OK
Preposition: 75.0 58.6224719101 128% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2775.0 2235.4752809 124% => OK
No of words: 546.0 442.535393258 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08241758242 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.83390555256 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75543409388 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 244.0 215.323595506 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.446886446886 0.4932671777 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 845.1 704.065955056 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.0974908673 60.3974514979 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.730769231 118.986275619 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0 23.4991977007 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.96153846154 5.21951772744 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 10.2758426966 165% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.238275492769 0.243740707755 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.081157549512 0.0831039109588 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0657485855146 0.0758088955206 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.156909685857 0.150359130593 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0339390268977 0.0667264976115 51% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 14.1392134831 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.8420337079 120% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.18 12.1639044944 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.86 8.38706741573 94% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 100.480337079 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.7820224719 68% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
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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