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You Say, They Think (Education Reform)

An analysis of a series frame clashes – you say one thing and the public thinks another –which shows how certain ways of framing education reform can get eaten in the swamp.
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Basic Message Templates (Education Reform)

The outline of a new frame for communicating about education reform. The talking points, FAQs, and Sample Op-Ed in this toolkit show a variety of ways to apply this basic template.
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Digging Deeper: The Achievement Gap (Education Reform)

FrameWorks’ recent cognitive media analysis of the coverage of education issues and race found that “two frames were dominant in these articles [about education and race].
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More to Genes Than That: Designing Metaphors to Explain Epigenetics

This report presents "Signature Effect" as an explanatory metaphor that helps people reason about the scientific concept of epigenetics.
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Planning for Our Future: The Contribution of Simplifying Models to Conceptualizing Budgets and Taxes

This report presents "Forward Exchange" as an explanatory metaphor that prompts people to think about public budgets and taxes in new ways.
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Air Traffic Control for Your Brain: Translating the Science of Executive Function Using a Simplifying Model

This report presents "Air Traffic Control" as an explanatory metaphor that helps people reason about the concept of executive function.
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Understanding Teachers’ Collective Role in Reform: Mapping the Gaps Between the Expert and the Public Understandings of Teachers’ Unions

This report examines how experts and the general public understand the topics of teachers, teachers’ unions, and unions more generally. FrameWorks compares these expert and public understandings...
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Valuing Immigration: How Frame Elements Contribute to Effective Communications

Communications about policy reforms that remind the public that beneficiaries of reform are likely to be ethnic minorities fail to elevate policy support.
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Time for a renovation: We need to update our approach to K-12 education to meet the challenges of the new century

This article appeared in the Spring issue of Commonwealth Magazine. It was written by Nicholas Donohue, President and CEO of the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, who discusses the Foundation's new...
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Talking About Budgets and Taxes

This toolkit features a compendium of research on how Americans think about budgets and taxes, and how to increase public support for policies that support reforms to the budgeting process and tax...
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Destiny or Destructive Environments: How Peer Discourse Sessions Toggle Between Child Mental Health and Illness

This report shares insights from 8 peer discourse sessions - small group discussions - that focused on child mental health.
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An Ounce of Prevention: Experimental Research in Strategic Frame Analysis to Identify Effective Issue Frames for Public Budgeting and Taxation Systems

This report evaluates whether different ways of communicating can bridge the gap between expert and lay understandings of US budgeting and taxation systems.