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FAQs (Early Childhood Development)

A series of questions that advocates tell us are the most challenging to respond to. Examples of  effectively and less- effectively framed responses to each question are included.

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Talking Points (Early Childhood Development)

The talking points are intended to be used in preparation for media interviews, editorial board visits, or drafting op-eds as a reminder of the core elements of the child development frame.

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Sample Editorial (Early Childhood Development)

This is an example of how to apply the framing strategies on early childhood to the format of a guest editorial.

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Sample Letters to the Editor (Early Childhood Development)

Two sample templates for applying the framing strategies to a Letter to the Editor format.

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Elements of the Core Story (Child Abuse and Neglect)

This tool offers an outline of the “core story to tell,” the key frame elements for communications that seek to promote child abuse and neglect prevention policies.

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Get in Where You Fit in: The Role of Teachers’ Unions in Public Conversations About Education Reform

Explains the research behind the need to beware of the Caring Teacher Trap, and the frame elements of Pragmatism and Scaffolding.

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How to Talk About Children’s Mental Health: A FrameWorks MessageMemo

This MessageMemo provides advocates with a communications map for improving the public's understanding of children's mental health and the value of solutions.

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The Proper Attitude: Challenges in Framing Higher Education Reform

This MessageMemo offers insights on how to frame higher education to boost support for broader, more equitable access and attainment.

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“Faster and Fancier Books”: Mapping the Gaps Between Expert and Public Understandings of Digital Media and Learning

This report compares expert discourse on this topic with the ways that average Americans talk and think about digital media and learning.

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Talking About Children’s Mental Health

Included in this toolkit are applications materials, based on the research findings, that can help engage the public in understanding children’s mental health, thereby improving the public...

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Getting on the Right Side of Change: How Peer Discourse Sessions See the Role of Teachers’ Unions in Education Reform

This report details the research findings from a series of Peer Discourse Sessions conducted by the FrameWorks Institute with groups of civically engaged U.S. citizens on the role of teachers’...

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Refining the Options for Advancing Support for Child Mental Health Policies

This report tests the impact of frame elements, specifically interdependence and prevention, on support for progressive children's mental health policies.