As we prepare (/brace ourselves) for the new presidential administration, what do we know about how presidential engagement in K-12 education policy shapes the politics of education? Alyssa Barone and I are thrilled to announce our new article (online early) in Education Finance and Policy 🧵 - ThreadSky

dmhouston.bsky.social • 114 days ago

As we prepare (/brace ourselves) for the new presidential administration, what do we know about how presidential engagement in K-12 education policy shapes the politics of education?

Alyssa Barone and I are thrilled to announce our new article (online early) in Education Finance and Policy 🧵

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dmhouston.bsky.social•114 days ago

"How the Engagement of High-Profile Partisan Officials Affects Education Politics, Public Opinion, and Polarization"

https://direct.mit.edu/edfp/article/doi/10.1162/edfp_a_00449/127481/How-the-Engagement-of-High-Profile-Partisan

dmhouston.bsky.social•114 days ago

We analyzed 18 nationally representative survey experiments conducted btw 2009-2021. In each experiment, some respondents were randomly assigned to receive the current president's position on a specific ed policy before all respondents were asked to indicate their support/opposition to that policy

dmhouston.bsky.social•114 days ago

Examples include Obama's support for charter schools, Trump's opposition to the Common Core, and Biden's support for universal pre-K

dmhouston.bsky.social•114 days ago

For each experiment, we estimated the average effect of receiving any policy cue (for the whole sample), receiving a policy cue from a president of one's own party, and receiving a policy cue from a president of the opposing party

dmhouston.bsky.social•114 days ago

On average, across all experiments, we found that a presidential policy cue typically did little to move public opinion in the direction of the cue-giver's preferred policies

Instead, the chief consequence was increased polarization among the public along partisan lines

dmhouston.bsky.social•114 days ago

Polarizing effects were larger among those who explicitly identified with a political party, but they were also substantial for those who indicated that they merely "leaned" toward one party or the other

No meaningful variation by ed attainment (proxy for how informed folks are about these issues)

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