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We publish reports on the state and national level, including original empirical research, surveys, public polls, syntheses and more.
To learn more about what we do, visit our Research page, or our Fiscal Research and Education Center.
With The Three Languages of School Choice, author John Kristof offers a first step in strengthening the school choice coalition. The essay is divided into four parts. First, Kristof reviews some history of the school choice movement and gives a demonstration that the policy is traditionally nonpartisan. Second, he dives into the narrative policy framework (NPF) approach to policy studies, a compelling, non-reductionist explanation for why groups gravitate to the policy issues they do. Third, Kristof pairs NPF with the three-axes model of political communication, developed by economist Arnold Kling, which helps explain why groups sharing a policy position can still politically differ. Fourth, Kristof uses the 2021 Virginia gubernatorial race as a case study to illustrate how the Three Languages can explain why various people within the school choice movement react to the same K-12 education event in different ways.