ERIC Number: ED616748
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Publication Date: 2021-Oct
Pages: 60
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Elevating Education in Politics: How Teacher Strikes Shape Congressional Election Campaigns. EdWorkingPaper No. 21-482
Lyon, Melissa Arnold; Kraft, Matthew A.
Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
Teacher strikes have gained national attention with the "#RedforEd" movement. Such strikes are polarizing events that could serve to elevate education as a political priority or cast education politics in a negative light. We investigate this empirically by collecting original panel data on U.S. teacher strikes, which we link to congressional election campaign advertisements. Election ads provide a useful window into political discourse because they are costly to sponsors, consequential for voter behavior, and predictive of future legislative agendas. Using a differences-in-differences framework, we find that teacher strikes dramatically increase education issue salience, with impacts concentrated among positively-framed ads. Effects are driven by strikes lasting only a few days and occurring in battleground areas with highly-contested elections.
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Teacher Strikes, Legislators, Political Campaigns, Advertising, Political Candidates, Political Issues, Content Analysis, Unions
Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. Brown University Box 1985, Providence, RI 02912. Tel: 401-863-7990; Fax: 401-863-1290; e-mail: AISR_Info@brown.edu; Web site: http://www.annenberginstitute.org
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
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