A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college

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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 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 those examples shape your position.

Throughout history, the standard K-12 education system in the United States has been constantly facing challenges from a variety of opponents, which ranges from erudite scholars in education to simply angry parents who are not satisfied with the reading materials in an English class. Consequently, the idea that a nation should have a homogenous curriculum from kindergardern to high school is always being debated. The prompt suggests that the same national curriculum should be required by a nation. In my option, I strongly agree with the prompt that the entire K-12 system should be uniform accross the country for two reasons.

To begin, a uniform K-12 education system will benefit the nation entirely by simplying the education as a whole and make the system to be evaluated easier. When all of the schools teach the same materials, it makes the education commmittees easier to evaluate other factors that contribute to students' performance, such as teachers and learning environments, and examine what factors need to be improved in each school to enhance students' learning experiences and efficiency. For instance, if the high school education system is allowed to be heterogenous, the graduation rates of high schools in two different districts may be harder to explain. It might because the district with higher graduation rates have easier math and english classes, fewer exams, no AP classess being offered, and etc, which makes it almost impossible for the nation to evaluate and improve the education system as a whole. On the other hand, if the national curriculum is the same across all high schools, evaluators can shift their focus to other factors that contribute to the differences the graduation rate, perhaps more human errors made by teachers and principles or lower fundings for learning supplies. The above example illustrates that, because curriculum in schools can flucuate too much, controlling them to being uniform can better help the national to improve the evaluate and improve the education system in general.

Moreover, even if we assume that a heterogenous school curriculum is stiil manageable for the nation to evalutate, having different school curriculums may easily contribute to inequality in education opportunities. For instance, there is an drastic increase of private schools in the United States that claims to offer unique curriculum to provide a better learning experience for their students, such as horse riding class and rat experiments in biology classes. Although those schools seem to be attractive to attend to, they require a significant cost of attendances, which are only available to students with better financial backgrounds. This creates a disparity of education opportunities in students with different socioeconomic backgrounds, with students from wealthy backgrounds able to learn more topics in great depth, but leaving the other students, who are not borned into a wealthy family, behind. Consequently, those wealthy students can have a better shot at entering Ivy League universities compared to their counterparts, which further expand this disparity.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 163, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...the system to be evaluated easier. When all of the schools teach the same materials, it ma...
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Line 7, column 1354, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...can better help the national to improve the evaluate and improve the education system in gen...
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Line 11, column 239, 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
...n opportunities. For instance, there is an drastic increase of private schools in ...
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Line 11, column 367, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to experience'
Suggestion: to experience
...curriculum to provide a better learning experience for their students, such as horse ridin...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, if, may, moreover, so, for instance, in general, such as, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 11.3162921348 159% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 33.0505617978 91% => OK
Preposition: 68.0 58.6224719101 116% => OK
Nominalization: 23.0 12.9106741573 178% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2960.0 2235.4752809 132% => OK
No of words: 541.0 442.535393258 122% => OK
Chars per words: 5.47134935305 5.05705443957 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82280071112 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95331845903 2.79657885939 106% => OK
Unique words: 272.0 215.323595506 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.502772643253 0.4932671777 102% => OK
syllable_count: 909.0 704.065955056 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.2370786517 84% => 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: 31.0 23.0359550562 135% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 63.4247503892 60.3974514979 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 174.117647059 118.986275619 146% => OK
Words per sentence: 31.8235294118 23.4991977007 135% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.52941176471 5.21951772744 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.188565056961 0.243740707755 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0798687584005 0.0831039109588 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.100900404306 0.0758088955206 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.111701564357 0.150359130593 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0700845826513 0.0667264976115 105% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 20.2 14.1392134831 143% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 31.55 48.8420337079 65% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.6 12.1743820225 136% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.04 12.1639044944 124% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.44 8.38706741573 113% => OK
difficult_words: 146.0 100.480337079 145% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.5 11.8971910112 164% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.4 11.2143820225 128% => OK
text_standard: 20.0 11.7820224719 170% => 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: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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