Jon Valant

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)

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

UNITED STATES - AUGUST 26: An empty hallway is pictured at Heather Hills Elementary School as officials conduct a materials distribution for parents to pick up for distance learning in Bowie, Md., on Wednesday, August 26, 2020. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

What if Americans sour on public education?

Monday, August 29, 2022

Students march along the National Mall during a protest against President-elect Donald Trump in Washington, U.S., November 15, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Barria TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Democrats should engage in education politics so kids don’t have to

Tuesday, June 7, 2022

Teacher Mary Yi works with fourth grade students at the Sokolowski School, where students and teachers are required to wear masks because of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Chelsea, Massachusetts, U.S., September 15, 2021. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

What education policy experts are watching for in 2022

Daphna Bassok, Stephanie Riegg Cellini, Michael Hansen, Douglas N. Harris, Jon Valant, and Kenneth K. Wong

Friday, January 7, 2022

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.

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

Monday, November 1, 2021

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.

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

Jon Valant and Nicolas Zerbino

Monday, September 13, 2021

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

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

Students in Anne Lefler s fifth grade class at South Knoxville Elementary watch as President Joe Biden speaks to the nation in his inauguration speech on Wednesday, January 20, 2021.Kns Inauguration School Bp

A crash course in education politics for the Biden administration

Friday, February 19, 2021

Douglas Austen Jensen of Iowa, a supporter of President Donald Trump wearing a QAnon shirt, confronts police as Trump supporters demonstrate on the second floor of the U.S. Capitol near the entrance to the Senate after breaching security defenses, in Washington, U.S., January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Theiler

We’ve built schools for a modern economy—but they overlook the challenges of our modern democracy

Monday, February 1, 2021

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Ending corporal punishment of preschool-age children

Marie Falcone, Diana Quintero, and Jon Valant

Tuesday, October 13, 2020