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.
Different countries can have differing opinions about a national school curriculum. Despite the objections that some may point out, it can be safely assumed that the advantages of having a national curriculum far outweigh the cons. A national curriculum will benefit the students the most, by giving everyone an equal footing and improved ease of changing schools. A national curriculum will also maintain a basal level of education of the students, regardless of the region and type of school.
One of the most prominent benefit of having a national school curriculum is that it will prepare every student equally for college. No student will have an unfair advantage over the other due to the type of school, private or public. The students of the far ends of the country will have the same educational background, and thus have an equal opportunity in national exams and jobs. An example of this is the CBSE board of India, which maintains the textbooks for schools all over the country. This implies that a student from Kashmir and Kerala can apply for the same jobs or positions, since they will have the same educational background.
Another obvious advantage of such a national curriculum is that students will be able to easily change schools. Many students lose out on their education when they transfer from one place to anther. Such students have to adapt to their new school environment and people, in addition to the new textbooks. A common textbook followed throughout the country will remove the need to adapt. The KVK schools all over India is an excellent example of this. The chain of KVK schools were created with the intent to help the children of army personnel, who transfer frequently, adapt to their new school. Thus, the students did not lose out on their education and could easily change schools.
Indeed, it can be argued that a national curriculum has several loopholes as well. It is true that a common curriculum maintained by the government can be misused for propaganda purposes. Parts of history or facts could be conveniently left out of textbooks which do not align with the government’s ideals. But such abuse of the textbooks can be prevented by giving the control over to an independent body, with no political or religious ties whatsoever.
In conclusion, a common national curriculum can help students gain equal education and opportunities. It can also make changing schools easier with no loss of education. Overall, the pros outnumber the cons and can be feasibly implemented.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, may, so, thus, well, in addition, in conclusion, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.5258426966 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.4196629213 169% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 33.0505617978 64% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 58.6224719101 94% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2129.0 2235.4752809 95% => OK
No of words: 420.0 442.535393258 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.06904761905 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52701905584 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78088307154 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 215.323595506 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.47380952381 0.4932671777 96% => OK
syllable_count: 648.0 704.065955056 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 10.0 4.99550561798 200% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 27.7780155419 60.3974514979 46% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 92.5652173913 118.986275619 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2608695652 23.4991977007 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.21739130435 5.21951772744 62% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.172288578664 0.243740707755 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0602152704427 0.0831039109588 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0393776189855 0.0758088955206 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.107021987455 0.150359130593 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0331608574486 0.0667264976115 50% => 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: 11.6 14.1392134831 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.8420337079 126% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.1743820225 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.1639044944 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.1 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 100.480337079 95% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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