The fact that Tiger Woods, one of the most famous athletes in modern history, attended an economics lecture at Stanford in the fall of 1994 after winning three straight U.S. Junior Amateur titles is somewhat amazing. He was eighteen. At the age of two, he had already made an appearance on national television. Nevertheless, he was being called “Urkel” by his college teammates as a freshman on a golf scholarship. Notah Begay III, who would later become the first Native American to win on the PGA Tour, inspired that moniker. It’s the kind of minute, humanizing detail that gets lost…
Author: Kelsey Myers
Kelsey Myers
Kelsey Myers is a Senior Editor at worldomep.org and a dedicated advocate for early childhood education whose work begins — and ends — with a simple belief: that the earliest years of a child's life matter more than almost anything else we can invest in. Based at a local school, Kelsey works daily alongside the children and families whose experiences inform everything she writes. She doesn't observe early education from a distance. She is inside it — in the classrooms, on the playgrounds, in the conversations between teachers and parents that shape how young children understand the world around them. That proximity gives her writing a warmth and specificity that purely policy-driven commentary rarely achieves. Through her writing at worldomep.org, Kelsey brings that same energy to readers — making the case, clearly and consistently, that early childhood education deserves far more attention than it typically receives. Kelsey shares her personal opinions on: https://x.com/Butterflyboule
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Every time Kirk Cousins is brought up, a version of this tale is overlooked. The franchise tags, the guaranteed contracts, and the “You like that?!” moment captured on camera following a fourth-quarter comeback are all talked about. However, very few return to the place where it all began: a young man from Holland, Michigan, who was most likely headed to Toledo. When Mark Dantonio became Michigan State’s head coach in 2007, he had few options for quarterbacks. None of his main targets had signed. He then gave Kirk Cousins a call. Cousins, who had been considering Western Michigan or Toledo,…
A certain type of story works particularly well: one in which a powerful person acknowledges that they were once utterly, helplessly clueless, but does so with genuine warmth and no justification. One of those tales is that of Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai. It has to do with a college cafeteria, a Hindi phrase he had no business using, and what he describes as his one day of fame on campus, all while grinning. Pichai was born and raised in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. At the age of twelve, the family’s first telephone was delivered. He came to IIT Kharagpur,…
The structure on Tenbury Wells’ edge has seen many changes over the years. Originally located on the border between Herefordshire and Worcestershire, St. Michael’s College was established in 1856 as a choir school for boys by the Reverend Sir Frederick Gore Ouseley. It was a Victorian institution with a distinct, almost rarefied purpose. As a result of the pandemic, it closed in 2020. After SIAS Education Group and Anglo Independence School acquired the property in August 2024, they began renovating it and reopening it under a different name. In September 2025, St. Michael Abbey School welcomed its first class of…
A school district that has been in operation continuously since 1900 and still requires families to submit lottery applications in order to get their kids admitted has a subtle telling quality. East Lansing Public Schools, or ELPS as the locals like to refer to it, educates about 3,700 students in eight schools in a comparatively small area of Ingham County, Michigan. It appears modest on paper. In actuality, it has a reputation that extends far beyond its boundaries. The district is located in a city that most people are primarily familiar with because it is home to Michigan State University,…
Any major dictionary, including Oxford, Collins, Webster’s, and Dictionary.com, will list Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp with the same effective economy: “1848–1929, U.S. frontiersman, law officer, and gunfighter.” A string of three words. It’s the type of definition that describes a person in detail without even attempting to explain why they are still relevant. The Earp definition, as it can be found in online databases and reference books, is both technically correct and in some ways completely inadequate.Born in Monmouth, Illinois, in 1848, Wyatt Earp was part of a large and restless family that would disperse throughout the American frontier in…
Sixteen weeks have passed. Fiona Donohoe, a mother, watched sixteen weeks of courtroom testimony, expert witnesses, and grainy CCTV footage from the benches of Belfast Coroner’s Court, waiting for someone to finally explain how her fourteen-year-old son died in an underground water tunnel in June 2020. One piece at a time, the lengthy and agonizingly detailed Noah Donohoe inquest has been revealing the details of that night. The basic facts are as follows: On June 21, 2020, Noah, a student at St. Malachy’s College and, by all accounts, an intelligent, typical teenager from Belfast, rode his bicycle out of his…
The fact that Reese Witherspoon, the actress who became known as Elle Woods and the most unlikely brilliant student at Harvard Law, never completed her college education has a subtle poetic quality. In 1994, she enrolled at Stanford University to major in English literature. Growing up in Nashville, she was a self-described bookworm who excelled academically and devoured novels in a focused, almost obsessive manner that she once claimed made her “heart beat hard” in bookstores. After less than a year, she departed. Not because she didn’t succeed. Hollywood called louder. The decision might not have seemed dramatic at the…
Taking the AP Calculus BC exam has an almost theatrical quality. The proctor reads instructions that sound like legal disclaimers, the room falls silent, and a clock that won’t stop for three hours and fifteen minutes begins to run in the back of your mind. That’s the entire duration of the AP Calc BC exam, and that figure doesn’t adequately prepare you for the real experience of high-stakes math under prolonged time pressure. The test is divided into two main sections, each of which is worth half of the final score. The first, which lasts for one hour and forty-five…
Sitting down for a standardized test carries a certain kind of pressure: the stark silence of a gymnasium, the simultaneous click of keyboards, the weight of two hours suddenly feeling very tangible. All of that is covered in the AP Computer Science Principles exam. However, this test is unique in that students have already locked in 30% of their score by the time they sit down for the official exam. sent in. Completed. That isn’t a metaphor; rather, it’s the exam’s format, which alters how students must approach preparation right away. There are two separate parts to the AP Computer…