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FAQs (Education)

Stay on message in the face of tough questions.

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Message Cards (Education)

Download printable cards summarizing tested frame elements.

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Sample Editorials (Education)

Models of how to take tested frame elements into advocacy on the opinion pages.

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FAQs (Children’s Oral Health)

This document is not intended to provide “the right answers” to questions you might be asked, but rather to offer illustrations of how to more effectively communicate about children’s oral...

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Talking Teachers and Teachers’ Unions

Welcome to Talking About Teachers and Teachers’ Unions – a toolkit compendium of research on how Americans think about the role of teachers and teachers’ unions, and how to increase public...

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Navigating the Swamp (Teachers’ Unions)

This is a graphic representation of the “swamp” of dominant patterns of the public’s thinking about the role of teachers and teachers’ unions. This visual serves as a reminder of the...

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You Say, They Think (Teachers’ Unions)

An analysis of a series of frame clashes – you say one thing and the public thinks another – and shows how common communication frames about teachers and teachers’ unions can get “eaten”...

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Basic Message Template (Teachers’ Unions)

This template is an outline of a message frame for communicating about the role of teachers and teachers’ unions as an integral part of meaningful education reform efforts. The Talking Points,...

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Talking Points (Teachers’ Unions)

Let these serve as reminders of the core frame elements needed to communicate effectively about teachers and teachers’ unions. These can be used in preparation for media interviews, editorial...

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FAQs (Teachers’ Unions)

This resource
 highlights a few common questions about teachers’ unions and education reform, with examples of effective and less-effective responses to each.

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Sample Editorials (Teachers’ Unions)

These sample editorials provides three examples of how to apply the framing strategies on teachers’ unions to the format of guest editorials in a newspaper: Supporting High-Quality Teacher...

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Six Harmful Patterns in Newspaper Presentations of Race

This report examines the numerous ways in which of race is presented to readers, directly and indirectly, in the nation’s newspapers.