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Jon Valant

Senior Fellow - Governance Studies, Brown Center on Education Policy

Cvr: Trump's Democrats

Trump’s Democrats

By Stephanie Muravchik and Jon A. Shields

2020

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump greets audience members at a campaign rally in Warwick, Rhode Island April 25, 2016. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Podcast Episode

Why Democratic communities flipped for Trump (and might do so again)

Bill Finan, Stephanie Muravchik, and Jon A. Shields

Friday, August 28, 2020

German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during the Alfred Herrhausen Conference at the Deutsche Bank building in Berlin, September 28, 2012. The German words in the foreground translate "Politics of Emotion instead of Algorithms." REUTERS/Thomas Peter (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

TechStream

Trade secrets shouldn’t shield tech companies’ algorithms from oversight

Marietje Schaake

Monday, May 4, 2020

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

A Chinese mobile phone user uses his electronic identification card in the messaging app Weixin, or WeChat, of Tencent, on his smartphone to check in at a hotel in Guangzhou city, south China's Guangdong province, 19 July 2018.WeChat, the popular mobile messaging, social media and payments platform run by Tencent Holdings, is poised to become further entrenched in everyday life in China under a new programme that adapts it as a user's electronic social security card. China's Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, backed by Hong Kong-listed Tencent, has started to roll out the project in 26 cities, including the southern coastal city of Shenzhen and Xi'an in the country's northwest. The WeChat-based electronic social security cards will enable users to provide their identification, status, payment records and other relevant information to official online inquiries about benefits and insurance coverage.No Use China. No Use France.

TechStream

Privacy-preserving credentials for smartphones are coming

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Demonstrators march across Brooklyn Bridge in protest against the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, New York, U.S., June 4, 2020. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

Brown Center Chalkboard

The banality of racism in education

Thursday, June 4, 2020

To combat the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, covid-19, the Trackvirus application has been developed in Israel to consult in real time the routes taken by infected people. Monday April 27, 2020.Pour lutter contre la propagation de la pandemie du coronavirus, covid-19, l application Trackvirus a ete develope en israel pour consulter en temps reel les itineraires emprunte par les personnes infectees. Lundi 27 Avril 2020.NO USE FRANCE

TechStream

A practical guide for COVID-19 app-makers

Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) speaks to supporters in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. March 17, 2019. REUTERS/Karen Pulfer Focht - RC1D993CBE70

Brown Center Chalkboard

What Elizabeth Warren’s K-12 plan reveals about education politics today

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

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

Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks at a campaign rally in Concord, New Hampshire, U.S., March 10, 2019. REUTERS/Brian Snyder - RC17A4976E20

Brown Center Chalkboard

Democrats’ views on charters diverge by race as 2020 elections loom

Tuesday, May 21, 2019

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Op-Ed

Will Egypt’s Jon Stewart Be Stifled?

Monday, December 31, 2012

German, U.S. and EU flags fly in front of the Reichstag building ahead of the meeting between U.S. President Obama and German Chancellor Merkel in Berlin

TechTank

Assessing trans-Atlantic data protections one year after Privacy Shield

Friday, July 21, 2017

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External Article

Cooperation with Saudi could shield India’s oil and gas assets against Pakistani threat

Vikram Singh Mehta

Monday, October 7, 2019

European and national flags fly outside the European Parliament while European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker presents a white paper on options for shoring up unity once Britain launches its withdrawal process, in Brussels, Belgium, March 1, 2017. REUTERS/Yves Herman - RTS10Z4B

TechTank

Trump puts U.S.-EU Privacy Shield at risk

Cameron F. Kerry

Wednesday, June 14, 2017