A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college.
Education is pertinent to the growth of any nation. Kofi Annan once said that the best form of investment any nation can make is into the education of its citizens. Therefore, any nation that is concerned about its growth would pay extra attention to the educational affairs of the nation. The curriculum typically contains the topics and extent at which the topics are taught at different levels. Therefore, it is one of the best ways to measure and regulate the quality of an educational system.
The peculiarity of each child should be considered in every curriculum that is made. There is a popular saying that if we test a dog with activities of a monkey, we would leave the dog thinking it is useless. Therefore, a general curriculum till college would not only over labour students with courses that are not relevant to their future endeavors, thereby wasting resources meant for better use but would also bring down the morale of each child. In some schools in United States, students who have been identified as gifted, are often drafted into a different school to help them harness their students to the advancement of mankind. Subjecting such children to a general curriculum would kill their creativity and general interests in education.
Secondly, the essence of pre-college education is to help students identify their strengths. Barring major courses such as English, Mathematics and Civic Education, all other courses should be selected in a way to help the student prepare and gain knowledge about their interests and strengths. This is particularly important for students that are close to college; this is because it helps them familiarize themselves with the courses they would be taking in college and would offer them a foundation that they can use to perform excellently in college. In fact, some countries give their students the option of taking Advanced courses in high school, as they see it as a way of improving their knowledge even before college. This practice should be widely accepted and used as it is more productive in the long run.
In contrast, a general curriculum can be a way of standardizing the knowledge gained by each student at the end of high school. It would help to measure the amount of information that is expected from a student at a particular level. Therefore, in that way a standard curriculum is not a bad idea and should be implemented across different levels of education especially at the lower levels.
Conclusively, there are merits and demerits to a general national curriculum and they should be weighed properly before the decision is taken as it would have an effect on every child in the nation and the nation’s progress as a whole.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, in contrast, in fact, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.5258426966 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 33.0505617978 115% => OK
Preposition: 64.0 58.6224719101 109% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2260.0 2235.4752809 101% => OK
No of words: 454.0 442.535393258 103% => OK
Chars per words: 4.97797356828 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61598047577 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77596314722 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 213.0 215.323595506 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.469162995595 0.4932671777 95% => OK
syllable_count: 718.2 704.065955056 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.6148738106 60.3974514979 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.947368421 118.986275619 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.8947368421 23.4991977007 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.05263157895 5.21951772744 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.245241622931 0.243740707755 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0787607099189 0.0831039109588 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0607387393564 0.0758088955206 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.148243168441 0.150359130593 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0630289711446 0.0667264976115 94% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 14.1392134831 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.8420337079 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.9 12.1639044944 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.26 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 100.480337079 100% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => 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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