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6. 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.
To improve the efficiency of pre-college education, many educators recommend the nations to require its all students to study the same national curriculum. Generally speaking, the same national curriculums have the advantage of providing the same set of well-designed curriculum efficiently to all students, and ensuring the relative fairness when students use the test results to apply for universities. However, we should also take into account the difference among various regions, especially when those regions in the nation is quite diverse.
Firstly, by offering the same set of national curriculum, the educators could teach the basic knowledge and skills students need to acquire before college more efficiently. The nation could call up their most talented and experienced educators to design the curriculum carefully and sophistically, and then apply to all the regions that may involved to ensure that students could get the proper training and absorb the necessary knowledge to better prepare for college. It is especially helpful to some regions where their education resources are scarce, when educators there could improve their education quality by adopting the materials sent by the central government. Moreover, it could be more conveniently to re-use the curriculum materials if proven to be efficient. What's more, using the same set of curriculum could enable the exchange program among different regions when students could quickly adapt the new environment.
Secondly, same national curriculum ensure the fairness among different regions during college admission. Usually, many nations in the world adopt a unified national examination as one of the most important indicators for college application process, such as SAT in the US. By offering the same set of curriculum across the country, the test makers could have clearly direction of what to test according to the intended outcomes of those curriculum. Another important reference would be the student's GPA, which reflects the academic achievement of the students on the everyday curriculums they take. Therefore, the comparison of GPA between students from different regions would be meaningless if the curriculums they take are not similar.
However, there should be some room left for specialized curriculums given that there are variation among different regions regarding the education resources. Some regions are relatively less well-developed that they don't have enough money and infrastructure to support the implementation of certain curriculum. For example, in some places in Africa or poor areas in mainland China, computers are really rare which make having the computers class there impossible. Also, some other classes like swimming class which requires a swimming pool, football class which requires a soccer court should only be built based resources of the specific region. However, it would be a waste of resources in some well-developed regions to not open these courses for well-rounded development of the students.
To conclude, in general, requiring the same set of national curriculum is beneficial in a sense that it could improve the education efficiency and ensure fairness of college admission process, yet we should have some space for regional curriculum due to the variance of education resources among different regions.
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