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Talking About Early Childhood Development

This toolkit features a compendium of over a decade of research on how Americans think about early childhood, childcare, preschool, and development, and how to increase public support for policies...

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Put Down Your Pencils Please: Media Coverage of Education Reform 2007-2008

This study was designed to gain an understanding of how major and select local media cover the ongoing debates over education reform. Relevant stories about reforms aimed at the pre-K through high...

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Refining the Core Story of Early Childhood Development: The Effects of Science and Health Frames

To translate the science of early childhood development, we need to draw on the science of communication. This report shares findings from a framing experiment.

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Don’t Give Up on Education!: A Cognitive Analysis of the Media Coverage of Education Reform 2007-2008

In this media analysis, FrameWorks researchers uncovered the frames that dominated news coverage of education reform in 2007-2008 - and their impact.

Toolkit

Talking About Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention

Included in this toolkit are application materials, based on the research findings, that can help engage the public in understanding early child development as it applies to child abuse and...

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Determinism Leavened by Will Power: The Challenge of Closing the Gaps Between the Public and Expert Explanations of Gene-Environment Interaction

Epigenetics has important implications for health policy - but lay perceptions of genetics are out of step with current science. This study pinpoints the gaps.

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Invisible Structures of Opportunity: How Media Depictions of Race Trivialize Issues of Diversity and Disparity

This media analysis was conducted to examine the various ways in which race is presented to readers, directly and indirectly, in the nation’s news media.

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Like Mars to Venus: The Separate and Sketchy Worlds of Budgets and Taxes

This report uses cognitive interviews to investigate Americans’ thinking about budgets and taxes- both as separate issues and as they relate to each other.

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Enough Blame To Go Around: Understanding the Public Discourse on Education Reform

This report shares the results of 18 focus groups conducted in 7 cities with diverse groups of politically engaged people around the United States. This research shows that Americans generally...

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Child Mental Health: A Review of the Scientific Discourse

This report offers an extensive literature review as well as expert interviews to begin to document the story that experts wish to tell about child and family mental health.

Toolkit File

Early Childhood Framing Case Study – Example 1

This document is an organizational case statement, used to describe the organization to potential donors, participants and the larger community. This case study looks at the document before and...

Toolkit File

Early Childhood Development Framing Case Study – Example 2

This document is designed to promote a county-wide early literacy program. This case study looks at the document before and after implementing reframing recommendations and illustrates the...