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Publication Alert: Child Development Article

by Lynn Davey March 4, 2011 Framing in the Field

FrameWorks Institute President and CEO Susan Bales has co-authored a paper with Jack Shonkoff, M.D., Director of the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, that appears in the current issue of the journal Child Development. The article, “Science Does Not Speak for Itself: Translating Child Development Research for the Public and Its Policymakers,” [...]

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Kids today!

by Lynn Davey December 16, 2010 Framer Reads the News

We couldn’t have written a better satire of the dominant frames about youth…. but this isn’t a satire. The topic? i-Dosing;  getting “digitally high” from listening to specially engineered sound files This has just about everything you could wish for in a story about teens:  The “you’re not going to believe what they’re up to [...]

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Social Math-ing the Tax Cuts

by Lynn Davey December 9, 2010 Social Math

From the New York Times 12/5/10. (click on the image to open a larger version in another tab) Thanks to our colleague Wendy Frosh for passing this along to us this week. As I perused the list, what struck me is how easy to think some of these analogies are, but how difficult some others [...]

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A Framer Reads the News: Junking Junk Food

by Lynn Davey December 6, 2010 Framer Reads the News

Flipping through the NY Times Magazine one Sunday, I came across this piece by Judith Warner: Junking Junk Food – Why the war on obesity isn’t just about curbing our appetites (New York Times Magazine, 11.28.10). The title caught my attention. I thought for sure I was about to read a piece that expanded the discourse [...]

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