A nation should not require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college. A universal curriculum dictated by the government is problematic due to political, philosophical and practical concerns.
The higher-order issues I have with a government-enforced curriculum hinge upon the age-old quandary of government versus local or even individual control. Such a dictate would impede upon the ability of local level, individual and communities to have control and influence over their youth's education. There are many different regions in the United States and even simple things such as history could be affected by a Federally scripted curriculum. Children would be missing their particular region's history of participation in aspects of US History, for instance.
There are many constituents who prefer to have control over what their children learn. I myself am not a person of faith, but those who have the constitutional right to practice their religion without interference. Some Federally mandatory curriculum, especially that involving social or sexual education, could directly contradict those person's beliefs. Further, many religions, such as Latter Day Saints, require their young to take weekly or daily classes on religious study. A Federally controlled curriculum, if it did not make allowances for those courses or give students and their families the opportunity to opt-out of some material would violate the constitution.
A comprehensive curriculum has practical issues on top of the argument of power and rights because children have different needs. Students with learning disabilities or different learning styles would not receive the type of support they need and would struggle to succeed. Children with different aspirations, those who become more interested in a technical, faith-based or artistic vocation would not have the opportunity to devote enough time enriching the skills of their particular interests. Charter schools with a focus, such as on STEM, arts, or classical curriculum are popular. With flattened curriculum, these schools would cease to exist and children would no longer be able to compete in these areas with foreign children who have more opportunity to hone their talents.
Proponents of a universal national curriculum would criticize the influence of local control and specialty education because it result would be too much experimentation, variability between regions in terms of outcomes and knowledge of students, as well as not having enough quality control of the curriculum. However, a better way would be to incorporate a baseline of core competencies that students must perform to. This would mean that all youth across the nation would be expected to be proficient in basic skills, literacy, math and the like, but there would be enough room beyond the core education to incorporate specialty foci and to customize a student's education experience to suit their interests, the interests of their community, their faith and needs.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 314, Rule ID: NUMEROUS_DIFFERENT[1]
Message: Use simply 'many'.
Suggestion: many
... over their youths education. There are many different regions in the United States and even s...
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Line 9, column 129, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'results'?
Suggestion: results
...trol and specialty education because it result would be too much experimentation, vari...
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Line 9, column 656, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'students'' or 'student's'?
Suggestion: students'; student's
...orate specialty foci and to customize a students education experience to suit their inte...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, so, well, for instance, such as, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.5258426966 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.4196629213 153% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 30.0 33.0505617978 91% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 58.6224719101 106% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 12.9106741573 139% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2575.0 2235.4752809 115% => OK
No of words: 465.0 442.535393258 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.5376344086 5.05705443957 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64369019777 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.04597219019 2.79657885939 109% => OK
Unique words: 242.0 215.323595506 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.520430107527 0.4932671777 106% => OK
syllable_count: 814.5 704.065955056 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 67.7722681663 60.3974514979 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 135.526315789 118.986275619 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.4736842105 23.4991977007 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.21052631579 5.21951772744 62% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.201707609335 0.243740707755 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0837242335954 0.0831039109588 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.217479037815 0.0758088955206 287% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.186576807026 0.150359130593 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.258317690547 0.0667264976115 387% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.9 14.1392134831 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 30.2 48.8420337079 62% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 12.1743820225 123% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.15 12.1639044944 125% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.21 8.38706741573 110% => OK
difficult_words: 129.0 100.480337079 128% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 11.8971910112 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.