"In particular, we have failed to build capacity or increase opportunities to learn.   Our intense focus on achievement gaps needs to be combined with an equally intense focus on opportunity gaps. The status quo of test-based accountability reform needs to give way to new, evidence-based approaches dedicated to building the capacity to accomplish accountability goals." This article is about how America is not putting their focus on the right issues when it comes to education. Instead of focusing on closing achievement gaps, America should start turning their gaze on how opportunity gaps are influencing the lives of students all over the country.

"Much has been written about the domestic consequences of growing income inequality in the United States - how inequality depresses growth, puts downward pressure on the middle class, accentuates wage stagnation and creates added difficulty paying for a college education and buying a home " This article by The Washington Post talks about how income inequality would not only affect America domestically, but also internationally. Having income inequality would undermine America's authority as a world power on an international level as well.