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The Future of Children: Fall 2006

Opportunity in America

Edited by Isabel V. Sawhill and Sara S. McLanahan August 31, 2006

This semiannual journal provides research and analysis to promote effective policies and programs for children. This volume features the following articles:

Improving Children’s Prospects: An Overview

Our Elementary and Secondary Schools: Equalizing Opportunity or Replicating the Status Quo?

Children’s Health and Social Mobility

Making It in America: Social Mobility in the Immigrant Population

Early Childhood Development and Social Mobility

About the Editors

Isabel V. Sawhill

Isabel V. Sawhill is a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. She served as vice president and director of the Economic Studies program from 2003 to 2006. She has been a co-director with Ron Haskins of the Center on Children and Families. Prior to joining Brookings, Dr. Sawhill was a senior fellow at The Urban Institute. She served in the Clinton Administration as an Associate Director of OMB, where her responsibilities included all of the human resource programs of the federal government, accounting for one third of the federal budget.

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Sara S. McLanahan

Sara S. McLanahan is professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University, where she is also director of the Center for Research on Child Wellbeing. She is coauthor of Growing Up with a Single Parent (Harvard, 1994).

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