Partisan

Flexible morals: A key reason American voters support divisive misinformation

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星期二, 四月 16, 2024
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, University, Language, COVID, Bias, American Journal, Death, Entrepreneurship, Doctor of Philosophy, Research, Vaccine, Black Lives Matter, Disease, Republican, Diagnosis, American Sociological Review, Democrat, Partisan, Politics, COVID-19

A common assumption about the problem is that partisan voters are apt to believe what they should question (and vice versa).

Key Points: 
  • A common assumption about the problem is that partisan voters are apt to believe what they should question (and vice versa).
  • And research backs up the idea that voters are “factually flexible,” either due to laziness or bias .
  • What if a key part of the story is that partisan voters are also “morally flexible” — that they hold opposition politicians to strict standards of factuality but allow their favorite politicians to share misinformation — even socially divisive misinformation.
  • For morally flexible voters, such statements are permissible because they articulate a “deeper truth” that captures their grievances.

American Voters: We Have a Retirement Crisis

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星期二, 四月 23, 2024
Prosperity, POS, Research, APSR, Human, Retirement, Republican, Public opinion, Democrat, Partisan, Pension, Financial adviser

WILMINGTON, Del., April 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- American voters are concerned about retirement savings and are not confident they will have enough money saved for their retirement years, according to public opinion research completed for the Alliance for Prosperity and a Secure Retirement.

Key Points: 
  • Even more, 87 percent say the country faces a retirement crisis.
  • Nearly all the focus group participants believed there is a retirement crisis in America.
  • Nearly all the focus group participants vocalized their belief that there is a retirement crisis in America.
  • We represent the investor's voice and advance constructive solutions to address the American retirement crisis.

Saying that students embrace censorship on college campuses is incorrect -- here's how to discuss the issue more constructively

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星期一, 六月 5, 2023
People, Technology, Hostility, Democracy, Freedom, Education, Speech, American Association, University, Constitutional right, Research, American Association of University Professors, Organization, Student, Human, Ivy League, Association, Engineering, Partisan, Faculty, ACLU, Assault, First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Management, Nursing, Publishing

Versions of this claim include the falsehoods that students “shut down” most invited speakers to campuses, reject challenging ideas and oppose conservative views.

Key Points: 
  • Versions of this claim include the falsehoods that students “shut down” most invited speakers to campuses, reject challenging ideas and oppose conservative views.
  • Such cynical distortions dominate discussions of higher education today, misinform the public and threaten both democracy and higher education.
  • Since 2020, numerous state legislatures have attempted to censor forms of speech on campuses by citing exaggerations about students and their studies.
  • The most common targets of such censorship are programs that discuss race, gender, sexuality and other forms of multiculturalism.

1. Avoid stereotypes about college students

    • The idea that college students are hostile to opposing viewpoints is false.
    • Such figures have benefited, politically or financially, from sensationalism about a college “free speech crisis.” In opinion polls, college students typically express stronger support for free speech and diverse viewpoints than other groups.
    • Judgments about higher education based on sweeping generalizations about college students conflict with the full realities of campus life.

2. Consider all forums for free speech in universities

    • Universities are major centers for the study of the First Amendment, the free press, human rights, cultural differences, international diplomacy, conflict resolution and more.
    • Despite occasional disruptions over bigoted speakers, universities offer numerous forums for free speech, open debate and intellectual diversity.
    • Debates over free speech in higher education can be improved by acknowledging the many forums in which people speak freely every day.

3. Recognize the true threats to free speech on campuses

    • The notion of hostility to such ideas on college campuses has surfaced in numerous bills that create new forms of state interference in education.
    • Politicians in those states justify ending tenure protections by claiming that professors teach students to censor free speech.
    • Such rising government interference creates a genuine threat to free speech on college campuses and in society beyond.

4. Understand the role of academic freedom

    • The ability of citizens to exercise academic freedom is not only vital in education.
    • Academic freedom includes the freedom to attend a university of one’s choice.
    • The freedom of an institution to offer a wide range of subject matters to students.
    • It rewards deeply cynical views of higher education and restricts a freedom that should be available to all Americans.

2022 Education Next survey reveals growing partisanship, record-high support for increasing teacher salaries despite diminishing faith in local schools

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星期二, 八月 16, 2022
Democrat, Racism, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Hoover Institution, Social isolation, GLOBE, Partisan, College, Politics, George Mason University, Attention, Perception, School, Republican, Parent, Child, COVID-19, Harvard Kennedy School, University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development, Methodology, Color, Distress, Government, Policy, Education policy, Public opinion, Harvard University, Student, Program, Tutoring, Management, Medicine, Education

This years poll includes a special survey of parents of students in public, private, and charter schools .

Key Points: 
  • This years poll includes a special survey of parents of students in public, private, and charter schools .
  • Today, just 52% of Americans give their local public schools an A or B grade, as compared to 60% in 2019.
  • However, in 2022, only 47% of Republicans, as compared to 56% of Democrats, award their local schools one of these two grades.
  • Support for increased teacher salaries has soared from 61% in 2017 and 67% in 2021 to 72% in 2022, reaching its highest level since Education Nexts first survey was conducted in 2007.

2021 Education Next Survey Reveals Parental Support for School Covid-Safety Measures Despite Vaccination Hesitancy

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星期二, 八月 31, 2021
College, Program, Government, Congress, Harvard University, Palm Springs (2020 film), Public opinion, GLOBE, Student, Parent, Public policy, Policy, Mass communication, Methodology, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Louisiana, Education policy, Louisiana State University, University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development, Economic policy of the Joe Biden administration, Child, Hoover Institution, Learning, Infection, Harvard Kennedy School, Democrat, Managing editor, Common Core State Standards Initiative, George Mason University, Partisan, School, Tutoring, Medicine, Management

Vaccine hesitancy, however, is not clearly driven by dismissal of the threat posed by Covid-19many parents support measures to protect their children from infection at school.

Key Points: 
  • Vaccine hesitancy, however, is not clearly driven by dismissal of the threat posed by Covid-19many parents support measures to protect their children from infection at school.
  • Nearly two thirds of parents say high school students should have the option of learning fully online, and nearly half say the same for elementary school students.
  • Martin R. West is academic dean and Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Editor-in-chief of Education Next.
  • About Education Next: Education Next is a scholarly journal committed to careful examination of evidence relating to school reform, published by the Education Next Institute and the Program on Education Policy and Governance at the Harvard Kennedy School.

After Six-Year Hiatus, JibJab Explores Its Political Roots Again With Launch of Free “Go Vote” Digital Content and Partnership with Rock the Vote

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星期二, 九月 22, 2020
Mobile, Wireless, Social media, Internet, Consumer, Technology, Other Communications, Other Government, Teens, Marketing, Advertising, Communications, Elections, Campaigns, Public policy, Government, Articles, Political parties, JibJab, Partisan, Satires, Satire, Nonpartisanism in the United States, Nonpartisanism

JibJab made a conscious decision in 2016 to pause the development and release of all political satire as the landscape had changed dramatically.

Key Points: 
  • JibJab made a conscious decision in 2016 to pause the development and release of all political satire as the landscape had changed dramatically.
  • Rock the Vote, founded in 1990, is a nonpartisan nonprofit dedicated to building the political power of young people.
  • JibJab is a leading independent provider of social expression content through branded satires, e-cards, and messages.
  • Rock the Vote is a nonpartisan nonprofit dedicated to building the political power of young people.