a nation should require all of its students to study the same national cirriculum 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

This statement argues that a state should enroll all of its young generations in school through the same education programme, all the way until university commences. I believe that there are great benefits by implementing so, but there are also restricting elements in adapting this rigorous and rigid education policy for all the students in the nation.

First of all, the author must have considered the advantages for doing so. When a nation with a large population are all entering the selection for higher education, it poses a large risk and difficulty for the exam board, the education governors, and the entire national future generations. By implementing an exact and appropriate education crriculum and general textbooks, the nation's young generations would be taking the same standardised examination with the generalised knowledge. The results and scores produced from the tests would then be much easier and risk-free to assess and allocate the appropriate and correct amounts of students to their appropriate levels of higher education institutes. One prominent example of this practice in real life is China's university level entrance exam, "Gao Kao", that has been implemented for many decades. Billions of students all over China each years takes this notoriously difficult and stressful exam for two days in June, and the Chinese universities will allocate their entrance level scores according to the performance of students each year. This way have been proven effective and successful, with many other Asian countries following its suit. Therefore, standardising the national cirriculum provides an advantage for students to enter university fairly and based on their own qualities.

Secondly, another advantage for nation-wide curriculum being unanimous is for the general education for the general population. For a country, education is one of the most essential policies for its future generation growth and long term success. As the United Nations set the sustainable development goals to be achieved in 2025, one of the goals is to achieve sufficient general levels of education for all. When the country enforces a similar standard of learning cirriculum throughout the nation, this ensures that the students, no matter what family background, financial status, or social hierachy they are in, will be able to recieve decent education. There have been many studies done by the United Nations and other non-governmental organisations, that the more general spread education is for the population, there is more potential for these educated people to live happily, create business opportunities, and educate their next generation for a better household, society, and world. When education is enforced by the government and people are generally educated, this would more likely to bring the people in poverty out of the poverty cycle. Therefore, providing a national curriculum that doesn't discriminate anyone, and teaches the same materials, will provide general education levels for a country, bring poverty eradication through education, and sustainably develop a nation.

Thirdly, although there are two great benefits, and that many of the nations in the world are following the standardised national cirriculum to select students for higher education university institutions, this policy might pose unfairness and prejudice on some students with less ability or other minority cultures. For example, if the learning material is standardised, the exams should be standardised too - time limits for the exam, the printed exam papers, the strict testing environments, etc. However, there are many people who has learning disabilites or difficulties, such as dyslexia, or simply not able to understand the complexity of integration and differentiation. By putting them into the same testing environments, the same requirements, and the same questions for other students puts them in a great disadvantage. Hence, the national cirriculum must be adaptable and flexible for students who has learning difficulties and disabilities, in order to fairly judge and choose students for university. For example, for the British A-Levels university examination, students are required to choose three to four subjects, with different difficulty levels. The subject tests are regulated and standardised across the world, but the students are free to choose which subject and what level of difficulty they wish to pursue. Also, students with learning disabilities are able to have extra time or special exam environments in order to accomondate them to perform the best they can.

Another restriction for creating a standardised national cirriculum would be the material chosen for the textbooks would generally be the dominant and mainstream cultures and literature. This would impede the flourish and development for the minority cultures and literature in this nation. However, this restriction would not be as prominent as a problem for the arts; because the scientific and methodological ways of science would be scrutinised and reviewed by peers and authority before being widely accepted and selected for the textbook. But the minority cultures would be jeopradised and not preserved as well. For example, the songs and stories, the poems and literature created by minority ethnicities and tribes in the Amazon is not chosen for the literature textbooks for Brazil, Argentina, or other countries that border the Amazon. These tribes are already in danger, and would be further diminished through not spreading its culture to the mainsteam society. By not learning these, this would be a loss to the humankind cultural treasures.

Therefore, I believe it is important for the national cirriculum to not only generally educate all, but to include all cultures and diversity as well.