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 the advantages and explain how these examples shape your position.
Noted scientist Albert Einstein has famously said that every child is a genius. But, if we judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life thinking itself as stupid.
Every child, every individual is different, and thus, when it is said that a nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college, it is but natural for me to, in general, disagree, with this recommendation for the following three reasons.
To begin with, a curriculum includes all academic and non-academic activities experienced by a student in an educational institution. So far as the current trend goes, a curriculum is designed based on a multiple of considerations such as the academic needs of the student, their socio-cultural context, the reuirements of the local communitiy and the availibility of resources, to name a few. With this in mind, if we consider implementing a common curriculum nationwide, the local community requirements or the needs of children of a particular community are likely to be ignored in the case. For instance, perhaps children of a particular aboriginal community in central India require more time to learn the basics of English or Hindi language compared to children in other parts of the country, in which case, they will need more time with these subjects. However, such a flexible provision may not be possible in a common curriculum. Additionally, in a country as diverse as India, individuals in every region have a disparate mother-tongue, which is a meduim of instruction in many schools. In such a case, this recommendation will put most sudents, who learn in their native tongue in the early years, at a great disadvantage.
Secondly, a curriculum includes not only the academic and non-academic activities, but also the pedagogy of teaching-learning process. We know that there are three-types of learners - visual, auditory and kinesthetic and tutors usually tailor their content as per the requirements of the students in their classroom. In case of a common nationwide curriculum, these imrpovisations may not be possible. Again, there are a number of students, particularly who are differently abled, who require a very different approach - such as special teaching aids - for effective learning. In case if such children are also covered under the above recommendation, it is unlikely that a tutor will be able to do justice with them along with regular students in a regular classroom, and the differently able students are bound to suffer.
In defence of this recommendation, one may argue that all students need to have a common level of knowledge when they reach college. However, while one may grant it to be true, it is not necessary that they all gain that common level of knowledge using the same methodologies. They may use their own pace to learn things in their own ways - learning by doing or learning by observation or imitation, or howsoever it suits a child the best. Alternately, what may be done to ensure that all students starting the college are at the same level of understa, is adiministering some generalised tests (such as the GRE), that confirms that every student who is eligible for college has a basic level of knowledge required to pursue the courses.
Thus, in conclusion, the recommendation, in general seems to be flawed, primarily due to the individual differences among the students. Human being are not robots and schools are not factories, and thus, a one-size fits all approach is not suitable for the teaching-learning process at the school-level.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, thus, while, for instance, in conclusion, in general, such as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.5258426966 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 11.3162921348 159% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 33.0505617978 130% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 78.0 58.6224719101 133% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2997.0 2235.4752809 134% => OK
No of words: 590.0 442.535393258 133% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07966101695 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.92848004997 4.55969084622 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.17781489736 2.79657885939 114% => OK
Unique words: 287.0 215.323595506 133% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.486440677966 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 967.5 704.065955056 137% => 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% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 14.0 4.38483146067 319% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 28.0 23.0359550562 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 65.0140051195 60.3974514979 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 142.714285714 118.986275619 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.0952380952 23.4991977007 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.04761904762 5.21951772744 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.83258426966 207% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.213134426749 0.243740707755 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.058130358016 0.0831039109588 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0669577667372 0.0758088955206 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.117152234663 0.150359130593 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.100719139906 0.0667264976115 151% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.5 14.1392134831 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.06 48.8420337079 88% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.1743820225 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.48 12.1639044944 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.93 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 146.0 100.480337079 145% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 11.8971910112 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.2143820225 118% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => 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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