Book

The Future of Children: Fall 2006

Opportunity in America

Isabel V. Sawhill, Sara S. McLanahan
Release Date: August 31, 2006

A Brookings Institution Press and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University publication This semiannual journal provides research and analysis to promote effective policies and...

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

Isabel Sawhill is vice president and director of the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution. She served as associate director of the Office of Management and Budget.

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).