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
claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling
reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
I agree insofar as certain common core curriculum would serve useful educational purposes for a nation. At the same time, however, individual states, communities and schools should be allowed some freedom to augment such curriculum as they see fit; otherwise, a nation's educational system might defeat its own purposes in the long term.
Setting up by a national core curriculum would have beneficial effects for a nation. first of all, by providing all children with fundamental skills and knowledge, a common core curriculum could help ensure that children grow up to become a reasonably informed and productive, which is obviously fundamental for the survival of a society. such curriculum also provides a predictable foundation upon which college administrators and faculty could more easily build curricula and select course matericals for freshmen that are neither below nor above their level of educational experience, Moreover, by doing so, all school-children are taught core values upon which any democratic society depends to thrive, and even survive-values such as tolerance of others with different viewpoints, and respect for others. All of above provide a good foundation for the higher education system of a nation.
On the other hand, a common curricuum(which might be an exclusive one at the same time) would also leas to certain undesirable consequences that might even outweigh the above-mentioned benefit. first, on what basis should certain course work be included or excluded, and who would be the final decision maker? In all likelihood, these decisions will be determined in the hands of bureaucrats. Chances are, what should and should not be taught to children will be determined by the quirky notions of those bureaucrats-notions that may or may not reflect those of most communities, schools, or parents.
Another side effect of an offical, federally sanctioned curriculum is that it would facilitate the dissemination of propaganda and other dogma, for is biased and one-sided nature may undermine the very purpose of true education: to enlighten. one can foresee easily the banning of certain textbooks,programs, and web sites that provide information and perspectives that the goverment might wish to suppress-as some sort of threat to its authority and power. Although this scenario might seem farfetched, a national curriculum might well serve as a trigger for such chain reaction.
Furthermore, the inflexible nature of a uniform national curriculum would preclude the inclusion of programs, courses, and materials that are of regional or local significance. For example, the state of canifornia requires children at certain grade levels to learn about the history of particular ethnic groups who make up the state's diverses population. A national curriculum might not allow for such a feature, and canifornia youngsters would be worse off as a result of their ignorance about the traditions, values and cultural contributions of all the people whose citizenship they share. imposing a uniform national curriculum would also serve to undermine the authority of parents over their children, leaving them with far less power to participate meaningfully in the decision-making process. this problem would only be exacerbated were these decisions left exclusively to fedral regulators.
Homogenization of elementary and secondary educatio would amout to a double-edged sword. While it would serve as an insurance policy against a future populated with illiterates and ignorances, at the same time it might server to obliterate cultural diversity and tadition. The optimal federal approach, in my view, is a balanced one that imposes a basic curriculum yet leaves the rest up to each state-or better yet, to each community.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, however, if, may, moreover, second, so, well, while, as to, for example, sort of, such as, as a result, first of all, in my view, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 31.0 12.4196629213 250% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 28.0 14.8657303371 188% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 33.0505617978 85% => OK
Preposition: 73.0 58.6224719101 125% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3196.0 2235.4752809 143% => OK
No of words: 581.0 442.535393258 131% => OK
Chars per words: 5.5008605852 5.05705443957 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.90957651803 4.55969084622 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.16601797152 2.79657885939 113% => OK
Unique words: 311.0 215.323595506 144% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.535283993115 0.4932671777 109% => OK
syllable_count: 1020.6 704.065955056 145% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.77640449438 394% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 9.0 4.38483146067 205% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 23.0359550562 117% => OK
Sentence length SD: 87.0618931716 60.3974514979 144% => OK
Chars per sentence: 152.19047619 118.986275619 128% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.6666666667 23.4991977007 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.47619047619 5.21951772744 162% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 7.80617977528 115% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.185303344214 0.243740707755 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0606381180936 0.0831039109588 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0380742036511 0.0758088955206 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0982247814554 0.150359130593 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0459021796155 0.0667264976115 69% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.3 14.1392134831 129% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 27.15 48.8420337079 56% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 13.0 7.92365168539 164% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.2 12.1743820225 133% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.92 12.1639044944 123% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.7 8.38706741573 116% => OK
difficult_words: 174.0 100.480337079 173% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 11.8971910112 130% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.2143820225 114% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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