2025

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September 23, 2025

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September 17, 2025

Rachel M. Perera, Thalia González, Aidan Tomlinson
September 8, 2025
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Rachel M. Perera spoke to Politico about what the Trump administration’s new civics education program means for women’s history and gender equality.

Rachel M. Perera
Fellow - Governance Studies, Brown Center on Education Policy, Robert and Virginia Hartley Chair in Governance StudiesWe’re seeing the students who have been scoring the highest continuing to do roughly how they’ve done in the past, but the kids who were behind are just falling farther..."

Jon Valant
Director - Brown Center on Education Policy, Senior Fellow - Governance Studies, Herman and George R. Brown Chair in Education Studies @JonValantMichael Hansen spoke about the visa challenges facing international students with The Hill.
Schools are basically laboratories of social reproduction…As long as we are reliant on people’s individual personal motives to go to the classroom, people are going to want to change..."
Jon Valant emphasized to The New York Times that dismantling the Department of Education faces strong opposition due to its vital role in funding key programs.

Jon Valant
Director - Brown Center on Education Policy, Senior Fellow - Governance Studies, Herman and George R. Brown Chair in Education Studies @JonValantKatharine Meyer discussed the Trump administration’s targeting of academic institutions’ DEI programs and policies with The Hill.
Jon Valant spoke to The 74 about the “Big, Beautiful, Bill” and the scaled-back school choice proposal.

Jon Valant
Director - Brown Center on Education Policy, Senior Fellow - Governance Studies, Herman and George R. Brown Chair in Education Studies @JonValantCutting Pell while simultaneously cutting FSEOG adds up to a dramatic loss in aid available to the lowest-income college students and the institutions that serve them…
That’s the heart of the question that’s being debated—although it’s not being debated in explicit terms—does racial discrimination exist?

Rachel M. Perera
Fellow - Governance Studies, Brown Center on Education Policy, Robert and Virginia Hartley Chair in Governance StudiesIt ends up being a very quiet and sneaky way to fund a voucher program and impose it on states because it’s just wrapped up in this gargantuan and confusing tax bill…

Jon Valant
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