Is the American Dream leaving America?

In "The American Dream Leaving America?," Nicolas Kristof provides many examples about the educational problems we face as Americans. While I was reading I liked that he gave us many statistics about the facts about the old America and the new America (as I like to call it). I do believe that America is changing and that it is becoming more and more difficult for minorities to attend a good school or even be able to attend and afford college. He gives the readers lots of facts about other countries and how we compare to them now where as before we excelled in mass education. I do agree that the American dream is leaving America because I feel like it is just becoming too hard to not end us where started, meaning I feel like now in America if you start off poor you will most likely end up poor.