"Over the years, NCLB has become increasingly unpopular among teachers, administrators and parents. But there has been widespread support for the law's requirement that schools and districts report how different groups of students are doing." This article basically talks about how the NCLB program is not doing its job well. Their job is to bridge the gap of education. This article shows the evidence on how the NCLB is not doing what it should.

"Putnam's data verifies what many of us have seen anecdotally, that the children of the more affluent and less affluent are raised in starkly different ways and have different opportunities. Decades ago, college-graduate parents and high-school-graduate parents invested similarly in their children. Recently, more affluent parents have invested much more in their children's futures while less affluent parents have not." This Article basically explains what the opportunity gap is and how it affects education in America. It talks about how higher class children typically have more opportunities than lower class children. It also explains why jobs have an affect on opportunities because, the parents of children need money to send them to college, so without a good job children may not make it to college.