(GRE)have a look a this issue essay:

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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 claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.

 

National curriculum guidelines are set-up to guide students in learning through an ordered path, and to allow them go through a step by step learning process, all aimed at making education effective. Based on this, it is paramount that all students study the same national curriculum until they enter college.

 

When students study the same curriculum, the government will have a basis of judging the academic performance of students nationwide. Different curriculums will create confusion, for example, a nation with different states, or provinces, with students studying with different curriculums, will have different administrative education boards, different examination bodies and different teachers with different perspective on how to train students of the nation. These disparities stymies the development of a standard educational system. Also considering that the cost of running these dissimilar curriculums is high, such funds can be channelled into a standard singular curriculum; that will give teachers their required training and fund educational boards.

 

Furthermore, different curriculum stymies national integration, as some students will not be able seek education in other parts of the nation and it will mitigate academic discourse between students. They will grow up having an obscure knowledge of other cultures and ethnic groups in the same country. Nigeria is made up of a muslim North and a Christian South and whose official language is English and has over 400, indigenous languages, imagine the government allowing courses taken in the North to be in Arabic or the native Hausa language.

 

In conclusion, for a nation to have a properly educated young generation that will solve future problems of a nation, the students must study the same national curriculum.

 

 

 

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