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SPOTLIGHT: Education


Reuters/Staff Photographer - Kindergarten teacher tidies her classroom at the end of the school day.

Save to My Portfolio Impacts of Early Childhood Programs

Julia B. Isaacs and Emily Roessel, September 2008

Julia Isaacs and Emily Roessel assess the effects of five early childhood education programs—State Pre-K, Head Start, Early Head Start, Model Early Childhood Programs and Nurse Home Visiting—that have had positive impacts on children’s cognitive skills and/or school outcomes. Read More

Education, Head Start, Children & Families, Intergenerational Equity, Public Health

SPOTLIGHT: Education


Reuters/Adam Hunger - Students raise their hands at the Lilla G. Frederick Middle School during a class in Dorchester, MA

Save to My Portfolio Mobilizing the Community to Help Students Succeed

Hugh B. Price, August 2008

Hugh B. Price shares the lessons learned during his tenure as president of the National Urban League and explains how educators can collaborate with others to reverse poor motivation, reward student success, and realize higher achievement in even the most challenged school districts. Read More

Education, Community Development, K-12 Education, Urban and Inner-city Schools, Children & Families

SPOTLIGHT: Fiscal Policy


Reuters/Jason Cohn - Beth Shelly (L), 6, and her sister Mary, 7, attend a political rally on the Penn State campus in McKeesport, Pennsylvania

Save to My Portfolio Revising the Intergenerational Contract

Isabel V. Sawhill and Emily Monea, Summer 2008

Isabel Sawhill and Emily Monea argue that it's time to tear up the intergenerational contract as we know it and construct public policy around the one group of people for whom social investments really pay off: kids. Read More

Fiscal Policy, Intergenerational Equity, Macroeconomics, U.S. Economy

SPOTLIGHT: Children & Families


Reuters/Fred Prouser - A father and his sons play a guitar video game at an expo in Los Angeles

Save to My Portfolio Using the Media to Promote Adolescent Well-Being

Ron Haskins, Elisabeth Hirschhorn Donahue and Marisa Nightingale, Spring 2008

Parents are worried that teens are drowning in messages about sex, smoking, drinking, consumer goods and a host of other behaviors and products that threaten their well-being. This brief advocates using creative media to provide youth with positive messages that counteract the negative damaging messages to which they are exposed. Read More

Children & Families, Information Technology, Internet Policy, Media & Journalism, Technology

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Save to My Portfolio Future of Children: Children and Electronic Media

The articles in this volume examine the best available evidence on whether and how exposure to different media forms is linked with child well-being, and what difference can be found for chldren and adolescents, boys and girls, and for more and less advantaged children. Learn More

Research and Commentary

Save to My Portfolio Reducing Unplanned Pregnancies

Melissa S. Kearney, Phillip B. Levine, July 2008

In this brief, Melissa Kearney and Phillip Levine describe a recent analysis of the impacts of state policies that expanded eligibility for Medicaid family planning services to women who do not meet regular Medicaid eligibility criteria. The results of this research show that these expanded eligibility policies had a significant impact on reducing unplanned births. The authors conclude this is a cost-effective policy intervention. Read More

Research and Commentary

Save to My Portfolio Getting Ahead or Losing Ground: Economic Mobility in America

Ron Haskins, Julia B. Isaacs, Isabel V. Sawhill, February 2008

Is America still the land of opportunity and mobility? How much opportunity to get ahead actually exists in America? Brookings scholars Julia Isaacs, Isabel Sawhill and Ron Haskins provide new evidence and summarize research on both the extent of intergenerational mobility in the United States and the factors that influence it. Read More

Research and Commentary

Save to My Portfolio Candidate Issue Index: Children

Julia B. Isaacs, May 15, 2008

Compiled by Brookings Institution experts, this chart is part of a series of issue indices to be published during the 2008 Presidential election cycle. The policy issues included in this series were chosen by Brookings staff and represent the most critical topics facing America’s next President. Read More

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The Center on Children and Families studies policies on the well-being of America's children and their parents, especially children in less-advantaged families, and seeks a more effective means of addressing poverty, inequality and lack of opportunity in the United States.

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Q&A with Isabel Sawhill

Economic Mobility

"If you're born into a poor family, it's very hard to escape.  And similarly, if you're born into a rich family, you're likely to stay there... The notion of rags to riches in a generation, in other words, is mostly a myth."

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Spotlight

ExpertIsabel V. Sawhill

A nationally known budget expert, Isabel Sawhill focuses on domestic poverty and federal fiscal policy. She is also co-director of the Center on Children and Families at Brookings.

ExpertRebecca Blank

Rebecca Blank is an expert on the interaction between the macroeconomy, government anti-poverty programs, and the behavior and well being of low-income families. She has just been named the Robert S. Kerr senior fellow at Brookings.

ExpertSarah A. Binder

Sarah Binder is an expert on Congress and legislative politics.  Her current projects focus on the politics of federal judicial selection and the consequences of partisan polarization.

Policy CenterEngelberg Center for Health Care Reform

The Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform provides practical solutions to achieve high-quality, innovative, affordable health care with particular emphasis on identifying opportunities on the national, state and local levels.

ExpertDouglas W. Elmendorf

Doug Elmendorf, whose government posts have included the Federal Reserve, Treasury, Council of Economic Advisors, and CBO, focuses his research on macroeconomics and fiscal policy. He is co-editor of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity and director of The Hamilton Project, which develops proposals for shared growth.

ExpertJoshua M. Epstein

A leader in the agent-based computational modeling methodology and a recent recipient of the 2008 NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, Josh Epstein is known for his groundbreaking work on epidemics and bioterrorism.

ExpertJulia B. Isaacs

Julia Isaacs focuses on public investments in children and how children are affected by national budgetary policies. A former federal budget analyst, she also researches the economic mobility of children and families across the income spectrum.

Research ProjectLatin America Initiative

The Latin America Initiative provides high-quality, in-depth, and independent research across a range of economic and political issues, and offers policy recommendations aimed at U.S. and Latin American policymakers.

ExpertHugh B. Price

Former president and chief executive officer of the National Urban League, Hugh Price is an expert on education, civil rights, equal opportunity and criminal justice. His 40-year career spans journalism, philanthropy, the law, and social advocacy.

ExpertDarrell M. West

Darrell M. West is the vice president and director of Governance Studies at Brookings. His studies include campaigns and elections, political advertising, mass media, public opinion, technology policy and electronic government.

ExpertAlice M. Rivlin

Alice Rivlin, the first director of the Congressional Budget Office, is an expert on urban issues as well as fiscal, monetary and social policy. She directs the Greater Washington Research project. 

ProgramGovernance Studies

Governance Studies explores political institutions of the United States and other democracies to assess how they govern, how their practices compare and how citizens and public servants can advance sound governance.