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This article is about how parents influence thier childrens learning habits. Helping your children learn to read and write must start in the early years. Parents are a support team when thier child is learning to read. The way the parents read and write at home effects how the students read and write. Oral language is a foundation for literacy development.

Murnane focuses on the children living in poverty and the low performance of the students. His goal is to make the No Child Left Behind Act more realistic. The goal should be to concentrate on the children's growth as a student, not to reach an obtainable test score. The government needs to improve conditions of schools of children living in poverty. The author suggests that the poverty stricken schools need to strengthen their staff in order to change anything. The main goal of children living in poverty is to get them to graduate from high school. The rate of kids graduating from high school in low income schools is down a great deal of percent than suburban schools. Murnane gives his opinion of setting obtainable goals not only for middle class students, but students that come from a poverty stricken area.

This author starts this out very differently than any other article. he puts the No Chil Left Behinf Act into a metaphor or a twisted road because it took so long to come up with and it has been changed many times. he talks about how it has to do with standardize test scores and how its hard to prepare students for these types of tests. The teachers are now likely to teach to the tests instead of the curriculum or coming up with their own effective ways of teaching.

In this article it brings up a very good point on how if a teacher is absent, then it will effect the students in their classroom. Some teachers are better than others and that could also effect the students. This study shows that 5-6% are absent days while school is in session. When teachers do take off of work, its hard for the schools to find good substitutes and it then leads to a day of no learning for the students.

The author here starts out with a story or a project that was conducted in her classroom. She had a consultant come in to try and help her students with reading. he believed that building a relationship was necessary and to do before and post background information was necessary also. They then go into talking about how the No Child Left behind Act is sometimes hard to meet the requirements and many students may not meet them.

The authors of this article talk about he achievement gap among students that are wealthier compared to lower class. The wealthier student get a lot more of the needs and get the support from home, while the lower class do not get as much and do not always have that support. In this article many studies were conducted. These are reliable studies that show how poverty among students can cause more problems in a childs academic development.

The author here realizes an important problem. He believes that students that live in poverty need to change their live styles and when they reach 4th and 5th grades, that is the ear things need to change. This is the place in a childs life that determins how they percieve school for the rest of thir lives. Th author says that teachers need to understand that these students were born into poverty and do not have much direction. Teachers need to understand and be able to help the students when they need it.

This article and author brings up many good points that the American people do not usually see. They start off by saying how the No Child Le Behind Act was implemented to help students get a good education and a fair one. The author then goes into how it has failed to meet the requirements and is supporting inequality. the idea of this act is not to bring attention to the economic problems with students, but to help the students achieve a quality education.

The author in this article explains that there needs to be a solution to find how to close the achievement gap. They thought that more programs for the children would decrease the problem, but it is still a problem today. The author came up with that if parents get more involved in their childrens school work, then theie achievement will increase.