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Item The 86th Legislative Session Look-Back(Texas Education Review, 2020) Sikes, Chloe LathamState legislatures govern many of the daily concerns in education, yet the politics at play in shaping legislators’ approaches to pressing education issues remain underexamined. This paper provides an overview of the education policy issues that defined the 86th Texas Legislative Session. The contributing authors to this critical issue draw on their political and professional expertise to offer their unique perspectives on Texas K-12 and higher education funding, new modes of teachers’ political advocacy, and persistent racial inequities in educational institutions. Together, these pieces provide readers with a review of the achievements and challenges in Texas education policy, as well as future directions for research, policy, and educational advocacy.Item Don't Hit Snooze: A Review of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me(2020) Barrish, DinaItem Hearts or Minds? Identifying Persuasive Messages on Climate Change(Sage Journals, 2015-03) Albertson, Bethany; Busby, Joshua WilliamThis article sheds light on what kinds of appeals persuade the US public on climate change. Using an experimental design, we assign a diverse sample of 330 participants to one of four conditions: an economic self-interest appeal, a moral appeal, a mixed appeal combining self-interest and morality and a control condition with no persuasive appeal.1 Participants were then asked a series of questions about their willingness to support advocacy efforts, including such actions as writing a letter to Congress, signing a petition and joining an organization. We hypothesized that for issues like climate change where it is expensive to address the problem, arguments based on self-interest are more likely to be persuasive than moral appeals. Our experiment yielded some surprising results. Knowledge was an important moderator of people’s attitudes on climate change in response to the persuasive messages. We found that among respondents who were more knowledgeable about climate change that the economic frame was most the persuasive in terms of a subject’s willingness to take actions to support the cause. However, among low knowledge respondents, the control condition without messaging yielded the most concern.Item Skin in the Game: The 86th Texas Legislative Session and the Impact of Advocate Diversity(Texas Education Review, 2020) Craven, MorganA large group of advocates and lobbyists influence state-level public education policymaking in Texas. Unfortunately, this group often does not mirror the racial and ethnic makeup of Texas public school students, the decisive majority of whom are students of color. This article argues that a lack of diversity among state-level education advocates can lead to policies that do not fully and fairly reflect the will, goals, and desires of the students and families impacted by them and can, in fact, contribute to the passage of policies that have a harmful and disproportionate impact on them. The author urges education organizations to insist that state-level policy spaces include diverse views and voices in a meaningful way.