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Framing in the Field: How to Build Support for Funding Children’s Programs

by Shannon Arvizu July 16, 2012 Framing in the Field

How can child advocates communicate a strong message to legislators to avoid the upcoming budget sequestration cuts to children’s programs? At a recent joint conference in D.C. sponsored by Kids Count and Voices for America’s Children, the FrameWorks Institute presented a hands-on workshop to help child advocates in this endeavor. The majority of the advocates [...]

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Occupy the Classroom!

by Erika Rydberg October 21, 2011 Framer Reads the News

  Occupy the Classroom is one of the headlines on the New York Times this week….and, no, it isn’t talking about sending protester signs from the parks into schools (although that would be a sight to see). It is, rather, a catchy title that draws attention to an issue that isn’t often on the front [...]

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How Do Children’s Brains Develop? Dr. Jack Shonkoff on “Education Nation”

by Robert Shore October 6, 2011 Framing in the Field

Recently, NBC news sponsored an initiative to engage the country in a solutions-focused conversation about the state of education in America called “Education Nation.” Needless to say, FrameWorks has been paying close attention. In more than two years of research in the field, on how Americans think about education, we’ve seen the good, the bad, [...]

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Framing Early Child Development: Resilience…it’s everywhere.

by Nat Kendall-Taylor August 25, 2011 Framing in the Field

If you’re part of the world of early child development science, policy and practice, you’ve undoubtedly come across the concept of “resilience”—it’s everywhere you turn. The next time you attend a presentation or are at a talk that deals with children and policy run a little experiment—count the number of times resilience is invoked, both [...]

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