Describes the overall averages of spending by grades.

"Letting every employee have an identical opportunity to use a restroom located up a flight of stairs may be "identical" treatment but it is hardly equal treatment for a worker who uses a wheelchair. " This entire article talks about what the ADA is and what it is supposed to do; yet also talks about what the ADA is not doing. Additionally, it talks about how the demand for equality for the disabled and how that is what the ADA should be doing; thus not fully delivering on the promises that the ADA made when created.

"Family income is now a better predictor of children's success in school than race." The NY Times article of "No Rich Child Left Behind" explains the intricacies of living in the poor, middle, and the rich classes; and how each have an overwhelming academic gap in between them. In this article it explains how much has changed since the 20th century, and how we are becoming very slow to picking up on the problem; even though it's staring right at us. In addition to this, this article describes that even race has become a lesser problem than the gap between the middle class and the poor.

"Family income is now nearly as strong as parental education in predicting children's achievement." This article is an excerpt from a book Whither Opportunity in which the author describes a rapid increase of growth between the rich and the poor's availability to education. Not only this, but it describes how the incomes of parents are affecting not only their children's everyday life, but their futures as well.