"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 these examples shape your position.
Students represent the future of a nation. Their successes and failures help guide the trajectory of the nation. Thus, education plays a critical role in national development. As a result, some scholars have recommended that a nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college. While a standardized national curriculum can promote equality among students from different socioeconomic backgrounds, it can also prevent students from personalizing curriculums to their interests and needs.
A standardized national curriculum would ensure that all students, regardless of their socioeconomic backgrounds, are receiving the same curriculum so that there would be less of a knowledge disparity when students with varying levels of privilege enter college. It is easy for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds to academically lag behind in college because they are unable to compete with their more privileged peers who were able to afford outside tutors or highly trained teachers who taught them advanced content prior to college. This academic disparity between students can create a lot of stress for students from lower socioeconomic status and in turn impact other aspects of their college experience. Having a standardized national curriculum could solve this. If all students in the nation are taught the same curriculum in school, that would ensure that all students enter with the same basic foundation of knowledge to build on. In turn, this preparation can eliminate the potential knowledge disparity.
However, while having a national standardized curriculum can promote equality among students, other factors such as quality of the education or socioeconomic status can still lead to disparities. Though a national curriculum may be helpful, it is difficult to standardize how the curriculum is carried out across the nation. Learning the curriculum content from a poorly trained teacher can produce vastly different results from learning the curriculum content from a professionally trained and experienced teacher. Furthermore, other factors outside of the school can affect the student's ability to absorb the information as well. For example, students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds might have to juggle multiple part-time jobs on top of going to school. The hours spent at these jobs can produce fatigue that in turn negatively impacts their academic performance. Hence, a national standardized curriculum may be a good place to begin in establishing educational equity; however, there are also many other factors that must be addressed to achieve complete equality in education.
Furthermore, the curriculum requirement can also prevent certain students from personalizing the curriculum to their personal passions, interests, or needs. Some students figure out what they want to pursue professionally early on in high school. It could be music, dance, acting, or robotics. In their cases, it might not be helpful for them to continue taking history, biology, or physical education classes when they can be taking advanced classes that most align with their professional interests. While it is always good for students to gain a wide, interdisciplinary perspective on the world, it might not always be best for the student's success. For all fields, specialization propels a student on his or her path to success. For example, when firms are hiring employees, they like to look for candidates who have relevant prior experience. Without a national curriculum, students can receive a head start and dive deeply into the development of their passions.
All in all, a standardized national curriculum has the potential to promote educational equity among students from diverse backgrounds. However, such result is unlikely to be attained. Instead, the curriculum can stifle student's pursuit of their true passions and interests. In addition, external factors such as the quality of education or student's socioeconomic backgrounds will still produce educational inequalities among students.
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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 positi 66
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, furthermore, hence, however, if, look, may, so, still, thus, well, while, for example, in addition, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 26.0 12.4196629213 209% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 33.0505617978 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 84.0 58.6224719101 143% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 12.9106741573 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3465.0 2235.4752809 155% => OK
No of words: 615.0 442.535393258 139% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.63414634146 5.05705443957 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.97987886753 4.55969084622 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.08591327342 2.79657885939 110% => OK
Unique words: 274.0 215.323595506 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.445528455285 0.4932671777 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1078.2 704.065955056 153% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 20.2370786517 148% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.8610814062 60.3974514979 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.5 118.986275619 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5 23.4991977007 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.2 5.21951772744 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 20.0 10.2758426966 195% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.231124637382 0.243740707755 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0790684835081 0.0831039109588 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.076240192434 0.0758088955206 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.163383733318 0.150359130593 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0720689218937 0.0667264976115 108% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 14.1392134831 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 34.26 48.8420337079 70% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.5 12.1743820225 111% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.37 12.1639044944 126% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.4 8.38706741573 100% => OK
difficult_words: 147.0 100.480337079 146% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.