On January 13, 2014, the Center on Children and Families at Brookings hosted the first annual Social Mobility Summit, featuring conversations with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Representative Paul Ryan.
![Mrs. Ashley Smith briefs U.S. Armed Forces senior leaders' spouses at Aviano Middle/High School during a base tour at Aviano Air Base, Italy, Oct. 13, 2022. The senior leaders' spouses learned about what makes Aviano schools unique within Department of Defense Education Activity DoDEA and the goals they have for the near future.](https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/2022-10-13T000000Z_638965405_MT1IMGOST000SRWJY2_RTRMADP_3_IMAGO-IMAGES-1.jpg?quality=75&w=500)
Education
Public school systems can learn a lot from the Department of Defense Education Activity