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The New School

The New School's course descriptions average 69.4 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so The New School reads 1.8 points further left.

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The New School: 69.4 (likely range 68.7 to 70.0) All 100 schools: 67.5 each other school in the comparison

Where its courses fall

4%Far left92–100

24%Left75–91

67%Center-left59–74

6%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

757 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Framing Subject

Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

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None. The New School has 755 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

Why this number, in plain words

Political lean of course descriptions. Average Framing score (0 = far right, 50 = center, 100 = far left) of the scored courses in the group.

50 is the survey-anchored center of US adults on each issue (the "moderate" place of the ANES/GSS/PRRI seven-label ruler), not the cohort midpoint; scores above 50 read leftward, below 50 rightward.

Counted: courses with a Framing score (categories L/R/B/C). The likely range (95% interval) is 68.7 to 70.0; a comparison whose range overlaps this one is not a reliable difference.

Most course descriptions carry no political lean at all and are not in this average; the "share described from the left" view counts them.
Readings are of catalog description text, not of teaching, syllabi or individual professors.

The New School by department (share of courses described from the left)

Department	Left-framed share	Courses
Women's & Gender Studies	66.3%	86	view
History	31.9%	329	view
Sociology	30.7%	277	view
Anthropology	26.4%	242	view
Political Science	25.3%	407	view
Economics	18.1%	182	view
Religious Studies	12.2%	90	view
Philosophy	12.0%	476	view
Psychology	11.9%	328	view
English & Comparative Literature	11.7%	556	view
Art & Art History	9.2%	1,486	view

Lean (mean Framing score) is not published per department within a school; only the left-framed share is. Department rows carry no interval.

Details: exact rows, definitions and method

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
The New School	mean_bias_score	69.4	68.7 – 70.0	4,459	757
All 100 schools	mean_bias_score	67.5	67.4 – 67.7	124,290	10,124

Formula: SUM(bias_score) / COUNT(bias_score)
Interval: normal approximation: mean +/- 1.96 * sd / sqrt(n), sample sd (n-1); undefined when n < 2
Model / prompt / snapshot: gpt-5.6-sol · r12 (2026-10-16-le49-r12) · 6df50b10
Metric caveats: Scored courses only (L/R/B/C); N and I carry no score and are excluded, so n here is smaller than the group's course count. Scores are model readings of catalog description text against a fixed anchored definition, not teaching or syllabi. The interval covers sampling noise in the mean only; it does not represent model reading error. Every value carries a `method` label: exact_rows or histogram_midpoint.

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