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"Education was historically considered a great equalizer in American society, capable of lifting less advantaged children and improving their chances for success as adults. But a body of recently published scholarship suggests that the achievement gap between rich and poor children is widening, a development that threatens to dilute education's leveling effects." In this article, there was a discussion about how an education gap between different income families has been increasing over the years in America through several statistics. A major reason for this is because many low-income families have a set-back in their education since high-income families spend more money and time on their children's academic futures. Also, a study mentioned in this article explains how many low-income families face hardships with their students completing college due to troubles financially with the tuition.

"The growing gap between the better educated and the less educated, he argued, has formed a kind of cultural divide that has its roots in natural social forces, like the tendency of educated people to marry other educated people, as well as in the social policies of the 1960s, like welfare and other government programs, which he contended provided incentives for staying single." Overall, this article discusses the possible reasons and explanations for why the education gap has been increasing between different families and children in America. One of the major reasons this gap has become so prominent is because successful people tend to only associate with other successful people. And their children will end up continuing the trend because they too have received a higher education, and want to remain wealthy. The down side to this theory that many researchers have found is that the poorer families have a similar history. So, even if the children grow up in the same area, one is still going to receive a better education than the other depending on wealth. In addition, the article also explained how many of the problems could be resolved as income increases allowing for lower income families to receive the rightful education. Recommended:educationachievement gapsmithson5snow2 Group dictionary:incomeeducationsnow1snow7Smithson7lowder1responsibilitysmithson5snow2snow3 Share my existing annotations Savecancel "

"A substantial majority of Americans (65%) said in an July 2012 Pew Research survey that they believed the income gap between the rich and poor had widened over the last decade. Just 20% said it had stayed the same and 7% said it was smaller. Most of those (57%) who believed the gap had grown said it was a bad thing for society." This article discusses the general public's idea of the growing gap between the income of the rich and poor. Many do in fact believe that this difference has been increases for the last ten years. However, there are many different agreeable reasons for why people believe the rich are just getting richer. Some say intelligence is a key factor when discussing income, which is true, but richer people also tend to be greedy in a democratic point of view. Also discussed in the article were the opinions on what kind of people receive a smaller income. Two major factors included were race and amount of effort applied in educations (what level of degree/education they received).