FrameWorks Institute

The FrameWorks Institute identifies, conducts, translates, and applies research that frames the public discourse on social problems in order to advance the nonprofit and public sector’s communications capacity, alignment, and effectiveness. This grant supports the organization as it grows its staff, partnerships, approaches, and research strategies to shift mindsets and public narratives across issue areas.

The FrameWorks Institute—a nonprofit communications research think tank—will develop a "core story" of education reform. With support from multiple funders, FrameWorks will study both the public’s perception of education issues and the gaps between its understanding and the opinions of experts across the field on questions such as: What is at stake for the United States when we talk about education? Why doesn’t education work to everyone’s advantage today? Can it be improved? How do we know that learning is happening? And what is the public goal of an expanded set of educational skills? Reformers can use the resulting data to frame communications and activities aimed at recruiting the support of the public and policymakers for systemic reform in the nation’s schools.