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Jon Valant

Director - Brown Center on Education Policy

Senior Fellow - Governance Studies

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.

Brown Center Chalkboard

What if Americans sour on public education?

Monday, August 29, 2022

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

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

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST

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

Brown Center Chalkboard

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

Tuesday, June 7, 2022

A student wearing a protective mask, attends class on the first day of school, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, at St. Lawrence Catholic School in North Miami Beach, Florida, U.S. August 18, 2021. REUTERS/Marco Bello

Podcast Episode

What does back-to-school look like during COVID?

Jon Valant and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, September 1, 2021

People wait in line for back to school COVID test

TechTank

TechTank Podcast Episode 28: Why schools still need a remote option to mitigate COVID-19

Nicol Turner Lee

Monday, September 20, 2021

News Release

Brookings Partners with Rowman & Littlefield to Co-publish Expert Books

Monday, August 1, 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.

Brown Center Chalkboard

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

Monday, November 1, 2021

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

POSTPONED- Webinar: A conversation with the director of the Missile Defense Agency

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

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

The future of early childhood education after COVID-19

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

Empowering parents to support their children’s development: A conversation about building a ‘parent nation’

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT