national curriculum....Issue task

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nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college.

 

Curriculums are designed by educators to guide students’ academic learning. Although flexibility of curriculums could be helpful to some particular students, there is a more pertinent need to make national curriculums similar for all students.

A similar nation education guideline creates a general basis on which to judge the general progress of students nationally. Variance in curriculums from one district to another does not make this possible; students would not be able to write similar tests and their level of academic progress would not be adequately measured. On the long run, government has no litmus test apparatus to check if education is improving or dwinling within a country. For example, if kids have to learn under different curriculums, exams like the SATs, which are able to show how much students have learnt on a national scale, would be not needed.

Furthermore, different curriculums would create problems for colleges, since prospective students would be coming from various backgrounds. Some students may be not have offered certain perequisite courses and this would make learning particular subject areas exacting for such kids. Such a situation makes the task of imbibing learning in students enormous and insuperable for educators. For instance, an Engineering College student that studied a curriculum which gives peripheral attention to calculus would find complex college problems too recondite to reconcile.

Together with the difficulties to students and educators, government would end up putting more funds into establishment of different schools, training different teachers and establishing various education boards to make a variegated national curriculum effective. Government budgets are limited and meager; with different other sectors to fund, such profligacy may not propitious. But a national curriculum cuts-down on these exorbitant expenses.

Proponents for diversity in education curriculum argue that students have varying needs and such variance would help tailor subject areas to their interest. While such views could be plausible, and some kids learn quite differently, allowing large disimilarities in learning within a country would deleterious to the education system.