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With the increasing intensive competitions between countries, leaders of nations begin to place more emphasis on education. How is an effective education pattern? Would national curriculum make the countries more competitive? In my view, a national curriculum does have these benefits, however, the speaker goes to an extreme by claiming that "all" students should attend national cirriculum.
To begin with ,national curriculum benefit both educational organization and students. On one hand, within the framework of national curriculum, people can make state by state comparison.Educational organization can know which school's teaching quality cannot meet the national demand and thus provide necessary support. Unified certification of teaching would be bred by national curriculum, and people over the nation can evaluate the teaching quality of school by making comparisons. Under public supervision, the general educational quality is supposed to make progress. Besides, such unified criterion makes parents know the subtle differences between schools more clearly. Thereby, they become more certain about the quality of school and hence can make conspicuous choice for their child.
Moreover, national curriculum also benefit students for two reasons, especially high school students who are to attend SAT. First, unified curriculum make standardized tests such as SAT and university or college entrance exam more fair, which is a crucial element in such important exams.National curriculum ensures that teaching and learning is balanced and consistent. In this light, students’ knowledge structure would become similar. Therefore, the main factors which affect their grades of SAT involve their diligence, capacity and intelligence.
However, to make all schools in different parts of the nation take the same national curriculum do have negative influence. For one thing, take United States as example, it is hard to realize uniform educational front line. Despite the disagreement between lawmakers in different states who think what is more important to students, the cost opportunity of national curriculum is significant in terms of how the money could be applied to extracurricular activities, improvement of local education quality and facilities. Differences between schools also impede national curriculum come to reality such as schools' different startling time, salaries, and human resources. In short, it takes time and lots of dollars to diminish these differences and finally approach to the ultimate goal.
For another thing, national curriculum does hurt to cultural diversity. One example aptly illustrates this point involved the province dominated by minority ethnics in China. It may be happy to see that students from national minorities can speak Mandarin fluently given the reason that they can communicate with the majority easily. However, it may be also sad to see that more and more students from minority ethnics begin to abandon their traditional culture; they replace Mandarin with their local language; they start to learn piano in school rather than to learn traditional instruments from parents. These negative influences serve to warn United States, which have not accepted national curriculum widely yet; after all, culture diversity makes up America.
To sum up,while the claim has worth, the speaker unnecessarily extend his/her statement to embrace all students. Some region such as Indian reservations, where the value of traditional culture seems to outweigh the benefit of national curriculum, we should not change its current condition. In other states, state government should hold public hearings to confirm this far-reaching decision. Only through these measures, we stand to gain from national curriculum while preventing the loss of cultural diversity. |
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