The statement calls for an identical national curriculum for all students at least until they enter college when they can make their choices as to what they ought to study.
The statement calls for an identical national curriculum for all students at least until they enter college when they can make their choices as to what they ought to study. I tend to agree with the statement on two primary accounts as detailed in the sequel.
First and foremost, it can be argued that many benefits are realized with a standardized education system. Because no variety in textbooks, training, and educational material is allowed, less resources are relatively expended to accomodate to this variety. For instance, if student A is permitted to take courses X and Y while student B decideds to study courses W and Z, the school needs to accomodate to the different needs to the two students by employing two sets of perhaps distinct resources. Courses X and Y may call for a specialized body of knowledge not required by courses W and Z. Course Y may require a laboratory component while course Z may require weekly field trips. From these examples, one can see that the burdon on the school and in general the national education system and eventually the government will be relatively higher in the case of a customized system as opposed to a standardized curriculum.
In addition, a standardized curriculum tends to be a more meaningful and even more fair in measuring students' performance. This is because with an identical curriculum no one student gains an unfair advantage over the others because he or she has selectively chosen subject matters that align with his or her interests, which may eventually be correlated with his or her performance. It also makes it harder to rank students; continuing with our hypothetical example above, how can one measure whether student A is academically more apt than student B if they are to take two different set of courses with differing means of examination?
Having said that, I acknowledge some cogency in the opposing wordlview. As such, I can relate to those who may be negatively affected by a rigid system dictating what they ought and ought not to study. This framework typically disadvantages some people because they may not be interested in all subjects chosen as part of the curriculum. When people are not interested in some pursuit, they tend not to give their best efforts to it, therefore, their effectiveness and performance may suffer as a consequence.
In summary, although a standardized national curriculum may be argued to be associated with some caveats, it eventually results in a better education system for a nation. This is because standardization leads to more effective deployment of resources as well as a more meaninful measurement system. Hence, an identical national curriculum is reccommended at a national level at least until students enter college.
- The statement claims cooperation rather than competition to be the more important trait to inculcate in young people in developing them for leadership positions. 50
- The statement calls for an identical national curriculum for all students at least until they enter college when they can make their choices as to what they ought to study. 62
- People who make decisions based on emotion and justify those decisions with logic afterwards are poor decision makers. 66
- The statement claims that inculcating the trait of cooperation rather than competition in young people is the best way to prepare them for leadership positions. 70
- Claim: Nations should suspend government funding for the arts when significant numbers of their citizens are hungry or unemployed.Reason: It is inappropriate—and, perhaps, even cruel—to use public resources to fund the arts when people's basic needs a 66
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 267, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to subject'
Suggestion: to subject
...ecause he or she has selectively chosen subject matters that align with his or her inte...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, hence, if, may, so, therefore, well, while, as to, at least, for instance, in addition, in general, in summary, of course, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 33.0505617978 106% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 58.6224719101 101% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 12.9106741573 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2306.0 2235.4752809 103% => OK
No of words: 455.0 442.535393258 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.06813186813 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61852021839 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.05714996721 2.79657885939 109% => OK
Unique words: 222.0 215.323595506 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.487912087912 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 748.8 704.065955056 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Interrogative: 2.0 0.740449438202 270% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.0303594207 60.3974514979 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.111111111 118.986275619 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.2777777778 23.4991977007 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.11111111111 5.21951772744 155% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.401617728132 0.243740707755 165% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.131061127236 0.0831039109588 158% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.223824891365 0.0758088955206 295% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.291506686647 0.150359130593 194% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.271722566433 0.0667264976115 407% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 14.1392134831 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.8420337079 94% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.1743820225 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.1639044944 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.66 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 109.0 100.480337079 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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