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Precious Perez, Samantha Riche and Evelyn Martinez work on a lab project during their chemistry class at a high school in Chelsea, Massachusetts

Brown Center Chalkboard

Survey: Understanding how U.S. public schools approach school discipline

Rachel M. Perera and Melissa Kay Diliberti

Thursday, January 19, 2023

Freshman students Laurah Pollonais and Dalicia Barker listen during a class at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia in this picture taken February 12, 2009. Black colleges in the United States are reeling from the impact of a recession that has hit their funding and are struggling to retain poor and middle income students. Picture taken February 12. To match feature USA-UNIVERSITIES/BLACK REUTERS/Tami Chappell (UNITED STATES)

Brown Center Chalkboard

Progress on diversity in the doctoral pipeline is slow

Tuesday, January 17, 2023

A man and students ride on a motorcycle on a flooded road, following rains during the monsoon season in Karachi, Pakistan August 10, 2022. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Order from Chaos

Pakistan: Five major issues to watch in 2023

Friday, January 13, 2023

Students board their school bus in a sub-zero temperature in Minneapolis, January 8, 2014. A deadly blast of arctic air shattered decades-old temperature records as it enveloped the eastern United States on Tuesday, snarling air, road and rail travel, driving energy prices higher and overwhelming shelters for homeless people. According to AccuWeather.com, the extreme cold won't last much longer. The frigid air and "polar vortex" that affected about 240 million people in the United States and southern Canada will depart during the second half of this week, and a far-reaching January thaw will begin, according to AccuWeather.com. REUTERS/Eric Miller (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT EDUCATION)

Brown Center Chalkboard

What Brown Center scholars will be watching in education policy and politics in 2023

Daphna Bassok, Michael Hansen, Douglas N. Harris, Katharine Meyer, Rachel M. Perera, Jon Valant, and Kenneth K. Wong

Tuesday, January 10, 2023

The head and torso of the statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee are separated for transport following the statue's removal. The Virginia supreme court ruled last week that the six-story monument could be removed. It has yet to be determined whether the pedestal covered in anti-racism graffiti will be removed given its prominent role in the 2020 anti-racism uprising in Richmond. (Photo by Allison Bailey/NurPhoto)NO USE FRANCE

Up Front

County secession: Local efforts to redraw political borders

Colby Galliher and Edison Forman

Tuesday, January 10, 2023

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell holds up a vial that he described as one that could contain anthrax, during his presentation on [Iraq] to the U.N. Security Council, in New York February 5, 2003. [Powell tried to persuade a sceptical world that Iraq is concealing it's weapons of mass destruction and that force may be necessary to disarm it.]

U.S. Defense

The 2002 Iraq AUMF: Interpretation and Possible Repeal

Thursday, December 29, 2022

FILE photo of gasoline delivery of Russian energy company Rosneft in northernmost well of Russia. United States seeking to ratchet up the pressure on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine said Washington and its European allies were considering banning Russian oil imports. ExxonMobil, Shell and BP sell out its stakes in Russian oil and gas operations as a result of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. Russia controls a sixth of the world's gas and a tenth of its oil. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak warns that a Western ban on Russian oil imports could result in oil prices more than doubling to about $300 per barrel. (Rosneft handout via EYEPRESS)

Report

Emerging Issues in Export Controls

Thursday, December 29, 2022

Image released by the Russia Ministry of Defense on Wednesday May 4, 2022 shows Russian soldiers conduct self-propelled artillery installations Malka in counter-battery combat against Ukraine. May 4 marks the 70th day of Russia invasion of Ukraine. The total amount of direct infrastructure damage has reached $92bn since the invasion in February at a cost of $4.5bn (£3.6bn) a week as bombs tear through thousands of buildings and public utilities, and miles of road, according to the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE). More than 33,000 sq metres of residential buildings have been hit by missiles, bombs and suffered other damage during the war, worth almost $30bn in total. More than 23,000km of road have been ripped up or pockmarked by shelling, and almost 90,000 cars, worth billions of dollars combined, have been damaged.

Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

State Sponsor of Terrorism Designations

Thursday, December 29, 2022

Buildings of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the State Unitary Enterprise of the National Police and the Kharkiv National University in the Kharkiv, second largest city of Ukraine is struck by a Russia army missile at about 08:10 on March 2, 2022. (State Emergency Service of Ukraine/EYEPRESS)

Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

Proposals to Seize Russian Assets to Rebuild Ukraine

Thursday, December 29, 2022

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks at a press conference in Lviv, western Ukraine, on Aug. 18, 2022, after holding talks with U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the Russia-Ukraine war. (Kyodo)==KyodoNO USE JAPAN

Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

Supporting International Accountability for Ukraine

Thursday, December 29, 2022

A resident of Bahkmut walks past a destroyed building in the city center. (Photo by Madeleine Kelly / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

Sanctions on Russia Over Ukraine

Thursday, December 29, 2022

Supporters of the America First ideology and U.S. President Donald Trump listen to Nick Fuentes, a leader of the America First movement and a white nationalist, as they participate in a "Stop the Steal" and "Million MAGA March" protests after the 2020 U.S. presidential election was called for Democratic candidate Joe Biden, in Washington, U.S. November 14, 2020. Picture taken November 14, 2020. REUTERS/Leah Millis

FixGov

The antisemitic and Islamophobic fringe is alarmingly emboldened—but it’s shrinking

Shibley Telhami and Stella M. Rouse

Thursday, December 29, 2022

CEO of Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google LLC, Sundar Pichai appears on a monitor behind a stenographer as he testifies remotely during the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing 'Does Section 230's Sweeping Immunity Enable Big Tech Bad Behavior?', on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, USA, 28 October 2020. CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey; CEO of Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google LLC, Sundar Pichai; and CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg all testified virtually at the hearing. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act guarantees that tech companies can not be sued for content on their platforms, but the Justice Department has suggested limiting this legislation. Photo by MICHAEL REYNOLDS/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

TechTank

Big Tech giving European consumers what they deny Americans

Wednesday, December 28, 2022

Dave Wallace, owner of Silica Broadband, installs fiber internet in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S., April 19, 2021. REUTERS/Amira Karaoud

TechTank

Reimagining the broadband technology workforce

Nicol Turner Lee and Brady Tavernier

Thursday, December 22, 2022

Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen gives evidence to the Joint Committee on the Draft Online Safety Bill of UK Parliament that is examining plans to regulate social media companies, in London, Britain October 25, 2021. UK Parliament 2021/Annabel Moeller/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY MANDATORY CREDIT IMAGE MUST NOT BE ALTERED

TechTank

U.K. government purges “legal but harmful” provisions from its revised Online Safety Bill

Wednesday, December 21, 2022