Eric Haas has studied framing extensively and taught the concepts of framing in the context of education issues. Before joining Rockridge, Dr. Haas most recently served as an Assistant Professor in Educational Leadership at the University of Connecticut. While at the University of Connecticut, he presented and published on framing, the media, and education at national conferences and in books and education journals. He recently published an insightful chapter about newspaper framings of the school voucher debate, "Civil Right, Noble Cause, and Trojan Horse: News Portrayals of Vouchers and Urban Education" (The Praeger Handbook of Urban Education (2006)). In 2004, Dr. Haas was awarded a visiting fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Lancaster (England) to advance his work on the framing of higher education.

Dr. Haas began his work in education as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Liberia. Since then, he has worked as a teacher in London and Caracas, and a middle school principal in Phoenix, Arizona.

Dr. Haas received his Ph.D. from Arizona State University, a J.D. from Catholic University, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from Notre Dame.

He recently began an examination of the framing of No Child Left Behind at Rockridge Nation.

Blog Entries by Eric Haas

Losing Our Minds over Immigration

Posted November 30, 2007 | 09:13 PM (EST)


On the issue of immigration, politicians and much of the mainstream media are playing with our minds. By repeating the phrase "illegal immigrants," they're creating a misleading stereotype. It's inaccurate. And, it's distracting us from the real issue -- economic exploitation of all low-wage workers in the U.S.

The Republicans...

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We Owe Our Veterans Health Care

Posted October 31, 2007 | 06:48 PM (EST)


Last April, President Bush told members of American Legion Post 177 that "we owe the families and the soldiers the best health care possible."

That debt is still unpaid. According to a new report by Harvard Medical School researchers, published yesterday in the peer-reviewed American Journal of Public...

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SCHIP and the Rigged Health Insurance Game

Posted October 26, 2007 | 03:52 PM (EST)



The House on Thursday passed a modified version of the SCHIP bill, with a vote that was seven votes shy of a veto-proof majority. There were 142 members of Congress who voted against extending health care to more poor children. Behind their rhetoric, their intentions are clear: they...

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