Essay topics: "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
Already for years there are speculations about reforming the school system in a lot of countries including the United States. The leading example for all nations is of course Finland which consistently strands on the top spot in all global educational rankings, from math to grammar. They have a national curriculum that every student needs to follow until they enter college. Should other nations adopt this approach to education or isn't everything as bright as it seems? A scrutiny regarding this topic will be necessary to give a decent answer.
One the one hand, one can say that a national curriculum certainly has its plus sides. It provides a whole nation with the same knowledge, which creates a coherent pack of students with the same educational background. This makes it easier for colleges to adjust their classes, since they now exactly know with what previous knowledge students arrive. For the same reaon, this approach makes it easier to compare schools with each other. Having the same curriculum will make clear which schools offer a better education by comparing graduating and drop out percentages (although other factors influence these percentages as well). For students who need to transfer schools there is also a benefit. Instead of comparing all courses they had with the ones the new school offers, they will immediately fit in and be able to pick up exactly where they left. For comparing purposes, the national curriculum has without a doubt a benefit, ranging from cmparing individual students to whole schools.
On the other hand, a national curriculum may limit certain students in what they are able to achieve. By not offering the classes they would like to see, they might become demotivated and drop out of school. After all the point of education is to make students warm for studying, to trigger their interest in certain subjects. If a school fails to achieve this goal due to a forced national curriculum, that would be a pity. The student's willingness and eagerness to learn should come in the first place. However this is a valid argument, this approach suits more the one of a college or university, where a student can study what they want. With the necessary flexibility, a national curriculum might thus do the job for high school students.
What should not be forgotten is that a national curriculum alone will not get countries to the same international standards as Finland. However it may help, the true heart of education lies with the teachers. If the teachers are good and can get their point across, students will benefit greatly. Therefore one should take a look how teachers are looking against this national curriculum. If they agree, they will give their heart and soul for this program, resulting in an overall better education. If they oppose the reform, their teaching will most certainly deteriorate, leaving us with a possibly better school system, but with less educational classes due to demoralised teachers. Therefore the implementation of such a reform of the educational system should be agreed upon by the teaching community before government requires it.
In sum we can say that a national curriculum certainly has its benefits, enabling us to easily compare students and schools with each other. However there should be some flexibility in the program leaving the possibility to make minor adjustments to suit the learning interests of the student so as to keep him/her interested in learning. But after all the big question is if the teaching community agrees with the proposal, because they will determine the level of classes. A national curriculum will therefore be a succcess if the teachers are standing behind this reformation of education.
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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 and explain your reasoning for the position 83
- Essay topics: "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 r 50
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, look, may, regarding, so, therefore, thus, well, after all, as to, of course, in the first place, 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: 26.0 12.4196629213 209% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 48.0 33.0505617978 145% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 78.0 58.6224719101 133% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3125.0 2235.4752809 140% => OK
No of words: 613.0 442.535393258 139% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.09787928222 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.97582523872 4.55969084622 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72319677305 2.79657885939 97% => OK
Unique words: 288.0 215.323595506 134% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.469820554649 0.4932671777 95% => OK
syllable_count: 955.8 704.065955056 136% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.38483146067 205% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 31.0 20.2370786517 153% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.3984427206 60.3974514979 57% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 100.806451613 118.986275619 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7741935484 23.4991977007 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.70967741935 5.21951772744 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 7.80617977528 102% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 22.0 10.2758426966 214% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => 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: 0.254786803005 0.243740707755 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.077858393255 0.0831039109588 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.053115496509 0.0758088955206 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.16927070547 0.150359130593 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0199635897557 0.0667264976115 30% => 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: 12.5 14.1392134831 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.8420337079 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.3 12.1639044944 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.06 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 135.0 100.480337079 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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.