"Data shows that 27 percent of low-income third-grade students and 41 percent of those students in eighth grade are not reading on grade level. Only 7 percent of higher-income students in the third grade and 15 percent of those students in eighth grade are reading below grade level." This was helpful because it talks about how the opportunity gap affects people. It helps you to understand what it is, and its effect not just on people, but how it makes certain races look.

"Among them: Wealthy parents are spending more lavishly on childcare, education and accessories such as toys, while families in the middle are spending roughly the same or less after inflation. And extracurricular activities such as after- school clubs have increasingly become the province of privileged kids." It helps to explain what the education opportunity gap is. It explains what happens to people on the bad half of the gap. It talks about advantages and disadvantages.