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Jon Valant

Director - Brown Center on Education Policy

Senior Fellow - Governance Studies

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) - GM1EA190G4I01

Policy 2020

What are charter schools and do they deliver?

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Young people holding signs protesting climate change

U.S. Economy

Toolkit for engaging millennials with the national debt debate

Stuart M. Butler, Timothy Higashi, Layla Zaidane, and Joe Greaney

Thursday, August 27, 2020

Jenny Doss, an early childhood special education teacher at Ben Franklin Elementary School, works with her K-5 class at the school in Menomonee Falls on June 8. Doss is speaking out against Republican lawmakers' spending proposal, which only calls for a slight boost in special education funding.MJS-special education funding00p1

Podcast Episode

Challenges to early childhood education in the wake of COVID-19

Jon Valant, Miriam Calderon, Jenna Conway, and Christina Weiland

Friday, September 3, 2021

A voter casts her ballot in the run-off election featuring incumbent Republican U.S. Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler and Democratic challengers Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, at the polling site at the Dunbar Neighborhood Center in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., January 5, 2021. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

The Avenue

Last night in Georgia, Black Americans saved democracy

Andre M. Perry, Carl Romer, David Harshbarger, and Anthony Fiano

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

An anti-vaccine mandate protester, argues with another meeting attendee during an event organised by Portland Public School to discuss a proposed coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine mandate for students 12-years-old and above in Portland, Oregon, U.S. October 26, 2021. REUTERS/Sergio Olmos NO ARCHIVES. NO RESALES.

Brown Center Chalkboard

It’s time to start voting in your local school board elections

Monday, November 1, 2021

Barpeta, Assam, India. 15 October 2019. Children wash their hands during an event to mark Global Handwashing Day at a primary school on the outskirt of Guwahati.

Op-Ed

Closing the COVID trust deficit

Pascaline Dupas, Joseph Doyle, and Karen Macours

Wednesday, February 17, 2021

The U.S. Capitol is seen through razor wire after police warned that a militia group might try to attack the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., March 4, 2021. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

Terrorism & Extremism

From anti-vaxxer moms to militia men: Influence operations, narrative weaponization, and the fracturing of American identity

Dana Beth Weinberg and Jessica Dawson

October 2021

Newark Prep Charter School students listen to academic coach, Robbie Garland, while taking part in an advisory session at the school in Newark, New Jersey

Brown Center Chalkboard

Research and reflections on African-Americans’ experiences in schools

Thursday, February 21, 2019

Election 2020: Implications for US foreign policy

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM EST

Students at Hiland Park Elementary School sit on dots in their physical education class that keep them six feet apart Tuesday, February 23, 2021.001 022321 Quarantining Changes

Brown Center Chalkboard

Coronavirus and schools: Reflections on education one year into the pandemic

Daphna Bassok, Lauren Bauer, Stephanie Riegg Cellini, Helen Shwe Hadani, Michael Hansen, Douglas N. Harris, Brad Olsen, Richard V. Reeves, Jon Valant, and Kenneth K. Wong

Friday, March 12, 2021

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos addresses Education Department staff on her first day on the job in Washington

Brown Center Chalkboard

School reopening plans linked to politics rather than public health

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Jonathan Yoder and his family

Longform

From rural digital divides to local solutions

Nicol Turner Lee

Thursday, April 2, 2020

PA via ReutersDemonstrators holding placards calling for transgender rights during a Black Trans Lives Matter protest at Parliament Square, London, following a raft of Black Lives Matter protests across the UK. Picture date: Saturday July 4, 2020.

Brown Center Chalkboard

Transgender students’ rights shouldn’t be subject to partisan feuds

Jon Valant and Nicolas Zerbino

Monday, September 13, 2021

A conversation on the past, present, and future of Black political power in the South

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST