A nation should require its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college.
Curriculum and pedagogy have been discussed and debated at the federal, state and local level for decades. Additionally, there has been an interesting interplay between the interlocutors in the education industry who readily debate the merits and perils of a national, standardized curriculum. It warrants heavy skepticism if a nation requires all its students to study the same curriculum during their K-12 years. Such a policy can have harmful effects, and in particular, there are two reasons why this could be detrimental.
First, the likely outcome of requiring students to undergo a homogenous curriculum is that students will have similar reasoning, critical thinking and communication skills. One of the stated goals of a college is to bring people together from different backgrounds, perspective and beliefs to exchange ideas and contribute to a healthy discourse. If a nation produces students who all think alike and refuse to stray from the standardized norm, it deprives its institutions of higher learning with this incumbent diversity and free flowing dialogue. Further, another stated goal of higher education is allowing its students to become comfortable with uncomfort. K-12 students with a shared, universal curriculum are likely to agree with each other and easily reach consensus on the day's toughest issues. This would also likely lead to the reinforcement of the student's opinions which leads to a culture of entrenching one's self in a myopic bubble.
Second, shouldn't states have a claim some kind of seat at the table of this discussion? The United States Constitution gives states plenty of rights to execute its laws and policies as they seem fit. This system of federalism has preserved for decades and enforcing a national curriculum, without input from the states, is antithetical to our very American foundation. Bestowing a non-negotiable national curriculum on a state could have deleterious effects on its workforce. For example, statistics indicate only 48% of students pursue college at the end of their high school years. As such, that assumes the majority of students highest level of education is a high school diploma. For this example, let's take a GED-earning student from a rural state like Wyoming. A federally imposed curriculum could emphasize skills in tech and STEM while neglecting skills needed to pursue agrarian careers. This student could then be a square peg in a round hole and lacking the needed skills and education for his local economy.
On the contrary, encouraging a standardized curriculum should allow for each student to arrive at college on a level playing field. This thinking is idealistic. Though they may have the same curriculum, that doesn't mean they'll have the same understanding and analytical abilities. It is incumbent on any democracy to embrace its intellectual capacity and diversity by enabling its education industry to provide all kinds of offerings. Denying innovative pedagogy is characteristic of some of the world's worst dictatorship where dissent, discussion and democracy are denied.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, second, so, then, while, for example, in particular, kind of, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 27.0 33.0505617978 82% => OK
Preposition: 65.0 58.6224719101 111% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2599.0 2235.4752809 116% => OK
No of words: 482.0 442.535393258 109% => OK
Chars per words: 5.39211618257 5.05705443957 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.68556276237 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99238385753 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 264.0 215.323595506 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.547717842324 0.4932671777 111% => OK
syllable_count: 823.5 704.065955056 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.8525355301 60.3974514979 61% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.291666667 118.986275619 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0833333333 23.4991977007 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.33333333333 5.21951772744 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 7.80617977528 102% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => 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: 0.267030984441 0.243740707755 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0723213628601 0.0831039109588 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0804336215544 0.0758088955206 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.1687378688 0.150359130593 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0191824206202 0.0667264976115 29% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 14.1392134831 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 48.8420337079 87% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.98 12.1639044944 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.08 8.38706741573 108% => OK
difficult_words: 136.0 100.480337079 135% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 11.8971910112 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => 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: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 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.