A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college.
The stance to whether the education system should be hoslistic or not is largely debated across the world. There are countries that adopt an education system that resemble those of the Chinese and Korean ones, where there are standardised tests at the end of a phase of education (ie at the end of high school etc) and students tend to have less freedom in choosing the subjects they would like to take. On the other hand, we have the more holistic approach to education, best characterised by that of the United States, where students have more freedom to select the path that is more aligned to their own interests and aspirations. The prompt states that a nation should mandate that all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college. I do largely agree with the statement for the following two reasons.
Opponents of such an ubiquitous system often state the need to cater to the needs of different students. Not every student is equally capable of learning certain types of curriculum. In the context of a more art inclined student, one may argue that by forcing the student to take statistics in mathematics or quantum physics, not only does that hinder the artistical development, it also adds unnecessary stress to the student as he/she struggles to understand concepts that is not compatible with him/her. In other examples, it might be too difficult for a student better with numbers to understand the abstract arts and literature should that be part of the national curriculum. I fully agree with them but that is precisely the reason for the need of a properly defined national curriculum. While certain concepts are more difficult to grasp, they are the funamental building blocks of human. Statistics for example, helps one to better appreciate things in life that is random in nature, while basic understanding of arts and other mediums of expressing creativity might stimulate innovation in the engineering or science sector. It is therefore necessary to impart such basic knowledge through a national curriculum.
A standardised national curriculum is also beneficial as it is likely that more attension and resources can be devoted into crafting a well balanced structure. Every country has a limited amount of spending set aside for education. By having a curriculum that caters to a large group, if not all of the students, there will be more resources dedicated to supporting its development and execution. For example, the eudcation ministry can have the person with the most experience in the country, or even abroad to define the structures of the curriculum. There could also be more supports to having the schools host excursions that might help with the students' learning. Therefore, a nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum.
Another benefit of a standardised curriculum is in the selection criteria of college admission and the continuity of study upon admission into college. A standardised curriculum will mean that all the students will be judged on the same basis. The tests, such as the SAT, can be designed such that a balance is acheived. For example, the math section of the GRE is designed to tests funamental topics of math such that even someone that is better in arts are not tested on excessively difficult topics. Based on the common tests, there can then be a fairer admission into college. And it does not stop there. Once admitted, the lecturers will know where all the students are in terms of the grasp of knowledge and he/she does not have to spend more time to go through the fundamentals just to make sure everyone is on the same line. These in turn saves resources. Imagine having different curriculum in every state in the USA and having to standardise them only in college. Hence a country should reuqire a standardised curriculum before college.
In conclusion, for the best use of limited resources, and in order to impart basic knowledge for the students to better understand the world, the nation should mandate its students to learn the same lessons before college. However, there should also be some degree of freedom and opportunities for students to explore their interests outside of the national curriculum.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 19, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
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Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
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Line 4, column 975, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...ng to standardise them only in college. Hence a country should reuqire a standardised...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, however, if, may, so, then, therefore, well, while, even so, for example, in conclusion, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.5258426966 154% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 23.0 12.4196629213 185% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 22.0 11.3162921348 194% => OK
Pronoun: 46.0 33.0505617978 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 105.0 58.6224719101 179% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 12.9106741573 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3541.0 2235.4752809 158% => OK
No of words: 708.0 442.535393258 160% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.00141242938 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.15832040409 4.55969084622 113% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76654897133 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 304.0 215.323595506 141% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.429378531073 0.4932671777 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1136.7 704.065955056 161% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 10.0 4.99550561798 200% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 31.0 20.2370786517 153% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 71.1504393213 60.3974514979 118% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.225806452 118.986275619 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8387096774 23.4991977007 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.29032258065 5.21951772744 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 4.83258426966 248% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.375244292964 0.243740707755 154% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.106868061678 0.0831039109588 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.170424881046 0.0758088955206 225% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.22782637151 0.150359130593 152% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0613297333547 0.0667264976115 92% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.1392134831 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.02 12.1639044944 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.07 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 150.0 100.480337079 149% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.0 11.8971910112 160% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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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