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.

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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.

Throughout history, many nations attempted and some of them managed to entirely unify school curricula. I believe there are benefits to such enforcements until children reach a certain age, yet in my opinion, it is better to allow schools to customize their curricula according to the profile of students as soon as the students are ready to be classified.

I believe that students should be taught the same material until they finish middle school. This is because research demonstrates that the divergence between students become evident only after they reach adolescence. After the differences are revealed, I believe students should be categorized according to their orientations and skills, as specialization at an early age is a step toward becoming a more productive worker. In Germany, for instance, students enter different types of high schools following their completion of middle school studies, and there are high schools with an emphasis on academic content, practical content, arts, etc. Owing to this system, the workforce of Germany is thoroughly specialized and skilled, which is a contributing factor to its booming economy.

Some people may argue that children may not be sufficiently mature to select the right type of school for themselves by the time they finish middle school. This is the part where teachers and parents have a responsibility. If teachers observe and track the achievements and progress of a student, he or she can give useful advice to the student about the student's strong and weak points. This is one of the formal responsibilities of instructors in Finland: they are required to prepare reports regarding each student's academic development and disclose the information to parents, and in some cases to the student. I acknowledge that this is difficult to achieve in countries and schools where the student-to-teacher ratio is high, yet in that case, parents can take on the responsibility.

All in all, I believe that it is inefficient to force youngsters to follow the same national curriculum until they reach college because their talents are revealed much earlier than that, so they can start specializing at an earlier age and become productive workers. Their well being would also increase, as they would be doing things that they enjoy and that are suitable for their competences.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, may, regarding, so, well, for instance, in my opinion, in some cases

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 33.0505617978 124% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 50.0 58.6224719101 85% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1974.0 2235.4752809 88% => OK
No of words: 374.0 442.535393258 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.27807486631 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3976220399 4.55969084622 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00277260422 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 215.323595506 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.550802139037 0.4932671777 112% => OK
syllable_count: 608.4 704.065955056 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 20.2370786517 69% => 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: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.387004694 60.3974514979 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 141.0 118.986275619 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.7142857143 23.4991977007 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.92857142857 5.21951772744 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.2758426966 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.17743280574 0.243740707755 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0618212537024 0.0831039109588 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0434193084377 0.0758088955206 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.104678492713 0.150359130593 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0273845819385 0.0667264976115 41% => 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: 16.8 14.1392134831 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.64 12.1639044944 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.89 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 100.480337079 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.


Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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