A nation inherently is one joint union. Following this understanding, a nation should indeed require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college. A national curriculum ensures standardization and equality amongst all students in a given nation. The examples below will illustrate the advantages of having the same national curriculum and how this would be a fair requirement to impose.
Firstly, a national curriculum allows all cities, states and provinces to be held to the same standard and compared to each other. Just as there is a standardization of education through which countries are compared, a nation must be able to compare its statistics and scores among its neighboring towns and cities. This would not only set a gold standard, but ensure that all cities states, etc. are asked to be held to that standard. If every city or even state had different curriculums, it would not only be difficult for students who have to move, but also teachers when they must put together their curriculum. Above all that, schools would have no way of knowing how their curriculum fares against a neighboring school. This can also help a nation hold others to a similar standard.
Furthermore, when high schoolers start applying to colleges, they tend to look at schools out of state. This is a massive trend specifically in the United States, for a multitude of reasons. The benefits of a national curriculum in this case are surely unparralleled. Colleges would be able to expect the same common knowledge from each and every one of their applicants, leading to stronger and more competitive incoming class. For example, all students come in with a different skill level for foreign language, though it is mandatory in just about every college. This means that if a student did not take the required years of a language in high school, they must make up the missed years in college. This results in students being forced to use their college tuition to take courses they should have, and could have, completed in high school. If all students, nationally, are expected to be at the same foreign language level, it would only seek to benefit their college experience and decrease the time and money wasted by waiting to take certain classes in college.
Finally, a national curriculum would ensure that no child is left behind. Every child, regardless of the economic condition they live in, has access to the same level of education. This would also put more pressure on governments to actually provide equal level of funding at all schools, as everyone has the same curriculum to uphold and can only do so if they have the same amount of resources, be that in the form of teachers or teaching supplies. This would also alleviate the stress felt in disadvantaged communities, who are disproptionately minorities, and allow them to believe in the possibility of getting into the same colleges or receiving the same jobs as their wealthier counterparts.
As Abraham Lincoln once said, a house divided by itself, cannot stand. While varying curriculums may allow for more flexibility at times, there are not enough benefits to promote such a position. A national curriculum would ensure that a nation is paying attention to the needs of all its people and not just the wealthy few. It would be able to compare its strengths and weaknesses across states, give colleges the ease of expecting a standard level of education from its applicants and allow students across different socioeconomic background the ability and resources to excel through a standardized curriculum.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 332, Rule ID: EACH_AND_EVERY[1]
Message: Consider using 'each one'.
Suggestion: each one
...o expect the same common knowledge from each and every one of their applicants, leading to stronge...
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Line 4, column 524, Rule ID: WHO_NOUN[1]
Message: A noun should not follow "who". Try changing to a verb or maybe to 'who is a are'.
Suggestion: who is a are
...ress felt in disadvantaged communities, who are disproptionately minorities, and allow ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, if, look, may, so, while, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 22.0 12.4196629213 177% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 33.0505617978 127% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 83.0 58.6224719101 142% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3012.0 2235.4752809 135% => OK
No of words: 599.0 442.535393258 135% => OK
Chars per words: 5.02838063439 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.94716853372 4.55969084622 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8404772216 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 288.0 215.323595506 134% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.480801335559 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 954.9 704.065955056 136% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 10.0 4.99550561798 200% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.3705408513 60.3974514979 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.555555556 118.986275619 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1851851852 23.4991977007 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.55555555556 5.21951772744 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.83258426966 186% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.254270362741 0.243740707755 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0834371992156 0.0831039109588 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0878963832531 0.0758088955206 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.17367217265 0.150359130593 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0997571491915 0.0667264976115 150% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 14.1392134831 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
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: 11.89 12.1639044944 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.37 8.38706741573 100% => OK
difficult_words: 138.0 100.480337079 137% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => 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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