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Jon Valant

Senior Fellow - Governance Studies, Brown Center on Education Policy

The future of U.S. extended deterrence

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

Kim Jong Un speaks during the Third Plenary Meeting of the Seventh Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK).

North Korea

Fire and fury: Trump’s North Korea crisis

Jung H. Pak, Bruce Klingner, Jon Wolfsthal, Joel Wit, Frank Jannuzi, and Suzanne DiMaggio

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

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

A student exits a bus as he arrives at Venice High School in Los Angeles, California

Brown Center Chalkboard

As states submit ESSA plans, policymakers must design responsible school rating systems

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump looks on as his choice for U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks at a "Thank You USA" tour rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S. December 9, 2016.

Brown Center Chalkboard

Donald Trump, Betsy DeVos, and the changing politics of charter schools

Tuesday, February 7, 2017

A school bus sits parked along a street in the Queens borough of New York January 16, 2013. For the first time in 34 years, New York City bus drivers went on strike, stranding up to 152,000 students in the nation's largest public school system on sleet-soaked Wednesday morning. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (UNITED STATES - Tags: EDUCATION CIVIL UNREST BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) - GM1E91H00RI01

Education

The opportunities and risks of K-12 student placement algorithms

Matt Kasman and Jon Valant

Thursday, February 28, 2019

U.S. President Donald Trump turns to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos (L) during his remarks to reporters before a workforce apprenticeship discussion at Trump's golf estate in Bedminster, New Jersey U.S. August 11, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC164E2DD650

Brown Center Chalkboard

School Safety Commission’s report uses tenuous logic to walk back guidance on school discipline

Jon Valant and Michael Hansen

Friday, December 21, 2018

A projection screen is seen outside Hofstra University, the site of the September 26 first presidential debate between U.S. Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, in Hempstead, New York, U.S., September 26, 2016. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton - RTSPJZ7

Brown Center Chalkboard

Kaine, Pence, and K-12 Education

Monday, October 3, 2016

Kurdish people celebrate to show their support for the upcoming September 25th independence referendum in Erbil, Iraq September 8, 2017. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari - RC1655D8A340

Markaz

As independence vote nears, Iraqi Kurds play a risky game of chicken

Jon Alterman and Mara Karlin

Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Past Policy 2020 Event

What does the 2020 election mean for education policy in the United States?

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT

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TechTank

Idea to Retire: Old methods of policy education

Ramayya Krishnan and Jon Nehlsen

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

A student stands in a library facing away.

Brown Center Chalkboard

Better serving the needs of America’s homeless students

Ariella Meltzer, Diana Quintero, and Jon Valant

Thursday, October 24, 2019

U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi reacts alongside fellow House Democrats to the results of the U.S. midterm elections at a Democratic election night rally in Washington, U.S. November 6, 2018. REUTERS/Al Drago - RC12CAFEB860

Brown Center Chalkboard

What do the 2018 midterm elections mean for education in America?

Michael Hansen, Elizabeth Mann Levesque, and Jon Valant

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

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