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Isabel V. Sawhill

Cabot Family Chair & Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

Isabel V. Sawhill is the Cabot Family Chair and a Senior Fellow at Brookings. She is the Co-Director of the Center on Children and Families at the Brookings Institution. Sawhill's areas of expertise are children, education, the federal budget, poverty and inequality, social welfare policy, and teen pregnancy, on which she is the author and editor of numerous books and articles.

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The Role of Education in Promoting Opportunity and Economic Growth

Events • March 29, 2007 • Washington, DC

The Hamilton Project held a panel discussion that featured recent strategy and discussion papers on ways to promote opportunity and growth through our nation's education system. The Project is examining the full spectrum of early childhood, K-12, and higher education.

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Success By Ten: Intervening Early, Often, and Effectively in the Education of Young Children

Papers • February 2007 • Jens Ludwig, Isabel V. Sawhill

The absence of a quality early education for many disadvantaged children represents an extraordinary waste of human potential. This paper outlines a model for helping such children achieve success through an intensive early education program.