A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college.
K-12 and high school education is a very hot topic in public debate, as it sets individuals off to successful careers if properly delivered. If not, it can undermine people's abilities to get to achieve their career and life goals. There are basically two curriculum approaches: a flexible one, in which all students learn a basic common core of broad fundamental concepts, and can pick and choose elective courses; and a one-size-fits-all national curriculum, in which all students learn exactly the same concepts until college. We believe that a nation should require all of its students to study a common core of broad fundamental concepts, but also allow students to choose elective courses allowing for personalization based on students' desired careers.
There is a growing variety of different fields a student can choose when she is applying for college, and the better she is prepared to that specific field, the higher the odds she will successfully graduate and start her career. A one-size-fits-all national curriculum would not allow for that specific preparation, while a common core with added elective courses would. Consider two different students, one who wishes to become a doctor, and other who desires to be an engineer. A flexible curriculum would provide both with education on fundamental concepts, needed in both careers (such as basic math, basic biology, basic chemistry, etc), but also allow the future doctor to study advanced topics in biology (required in the medical school), while at the same time better preparing the future engineer to college by teaching advanced math.
Also, there are different destinations than college. There are students who cannot afford or just simply do not wish to attend college. While a one-size-fits-all national curriculum would not prepare students to perform any practical job, as it would not allow for personalization and by definition should not teach in-depth concepts of any particular job or career, a flexible curriculum could equip these students, offering a multitude of optional practical courses, preparing them to get started in a simpler job right after high school.
The same national curriculum has its merits, as it can better level all students to the same standards, both preparing them become productive citizens whichever career they choose, and also addressing undecided students. These undecided students would have difficulties in choosing amongst optional courses in the flexible curriculum scenario. Nevertheless, most high school students have already a preferred career, or careers, which they are aiming for; the undecided are the minority. And this specific need could be addressed by offering optional career exploring courses and counseling, helping the undecided to choose.
We believe that, by the arguments presented, the benefits of a flexible curriculum outweighs the costs. Therefore, a flexible approach should be preferred in favour of a national one-size-fits-all curriculum, better preparing high school students for their next steps.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 143, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'citizens'' or 'citizen's'?
Suggestion: citizens'; citizen's
..., both preparing them become productive citizens whichever career they choose, and also ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, nevertheless, so, therefore, while, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.5258426966 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 33.0505617978 76% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 58.6224719101 78% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 12.9106741573 46% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2579.0 2235.4752809 115% => OK
No of words: 471.0 442.535393258 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.47558386412 5.05705443957 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65859790218 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99402957694 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 228.0 215.323595506 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.484076433121 0.4932671777 98% => OK
syllable_count: 807.3 704.065955056 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 9.0 1.77640449438 507% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.2370786517 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 27.0 23.0359550562 117% => OK
Sentence length SD: 96.2625806275 60.3974514979 159% => OK
Chars per sentence: 151.705882353 118.986275619 127% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.7058823529 23.4991977007 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.41176470588 5.21951772744 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => 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: 0.330813615659 0.243740707755 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.103453246679 0.0831039109588 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0979523815495 0.0758088955206 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.201299560687 0.150359130593 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0680686827624 0.0667264976115 102% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.2 14.1392134831 129% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.61 48.8420337079 73% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 12.1743820225 123% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.8 12.1639044944 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.83 8.38706741573 105% => OK
difficult_words: 115.0 100.480337079 114% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 11.8971910112 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.2143820225 114% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => 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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