In the weeks leading up to the AP exam season, a certain type of anxiety permeates a high school classroom. Students flip through prep books during lunch, pull out formula sheets at random times, and figure out how many days they have left. Before any of the actual math is covered, one question frequently comes up for students taking AP Precalculus: how long is this thing, and what exactly am I walking into? Three hours is the response. The two main sections of the three-hour AP Precalculus Exam test the same material in essentially different ways. 62.5 percent of the…
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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Imagine a calm afternoon in the early 1950s at McCosh 50, with Princeton undergraduates crammed into rows of wooden seats, pencils scrawling on blue books, and no professors wandering the aisles. Just the words of the students. Repeated throughout over a century of final exams, that image symbolized something Princeton genuinely cherished: the conviction that a community of scholars, bound by an honor code, didn’t need to be watched. The faculty decided to remove that image on May 11, 2026. It was almost a unanimous decision. Out of all the faculty, there was only one dissenting vote. That margin is…
The figure that frequently appears online is inaccurate, or at the very least lacking. Kim Kardashian is said to have failed the bar exam three times. The truth is more nuanced than that, and if you want to know what this story is really about, you have to get it right. This is the real record: Before passing the California First-Year Law Students’ Examination, also known as the “baby bar,” on her fourth try in 2021, Kardashian failed it three times. That wasn’t the main event; rather, it was a requirement to continue her legal apprenticeship. Then, in July 2025,…
The internet momentarily concluded that Kanye West had become a lawyer after a parody account’s tweet received 6,000 likes. Not just any lawyer, though, as he passed California’s infamously difficult bar exam on his first try, whereas his ex-wife Kim Kardashian was said to have struggled with it for years. Rivalry, irony, a well-known name, and just enough plausibility to make readers pause before scrolling past were all features that the internet adores. It was untrue. Completely untrue and verifiable. However, the speed at which it spread and the enthusiasm with which people embraced it indicate something important. The claim…
A picture of a young biology teacher named Maris Nichols is still making the rounds on the official Alexander High School website, or at least it was until recently. That picture is no longer there. Her name has also vanished. Additionally, there is simply an absence where a teacher’s profile used to be, which in many respects conveys more information than any formal declaration could. A person with supervisory or disciplinary authority arrested Nichols, 25, on Friday, May 8, on two charges of sexual assault. She allegedly had sex with a student twice, once on April 23 in a closet…
Norcross High School, located at 5300 Spalding Drive, hums with the regular rhythm of almost 2,400 students making their way through the hallways on Monday mornings as they head to first period and spend a few more minutes with friends before the bell rings. However, Monday of last week was not typical. A phone call that turned out to be a lie caused police cars to fill the lot, students to congregate outside in haphazard groups, and a strict lockdown to freeze the school.It’s worth taking a moment to consider that. An entire school day was disrupted, thousands of families…
Approximately 400 educators, researchers, and policymakers convened in Bangkok in July 2024 for what was, by any objective standard, one of the most significant international discussions regarding the treatment of humanity’s youngest children. They traveled from all over the world to attend the 76th World Assembly and International Conference of the World Organization for Early Childhood Education, including nations in East Africa and Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America, and organizations like UNESCO and UNICEF. Nearly none of it appeared on any American front page. It’s worth considering that silence. Three years after the end of a war that had…
Imagine a toddler in a living room somewhere, not in a particular city, but in the kind of setting that has become commonplace on every continent. The youngster is silent. The parent is appreciative of the silence. The tablet is operating as intended. There is no cruelty. No one is being careless. The screen is a workable solution for this specific afternoon because the parent is worn out, likely working, and possibly juggling three other tasks at once. The World Organization for Early Childhood Education (OMEP), which operates in over 70 countries and carries over 70 years of institutional memory,…
Approximately 600 people from all over Australia gathered in front of their screens on November 5, 2025, to participate in a free online symposium on early childhood leadership organized by Charles Sturt University. 600. That figure feels noteworthy for an industry that frequently finds it difficult to be taken seriously at the policy level and for a professional community that spends the majority of its time just maintaining services. This type of attendance indicates that the issue had been gaining traction for some time and that people were eager for a forum to discuss it openly. Leadership in early childhood…
A conversation has been subtly getting more intense in Buenos Aires at the modest administrative address where OMEP keeps its world secretariat. It’s about who gets to decide what the youngest children’s education should entail. The argument seems reasonable, even scholarly, on one level. On the other hand, it directly addresses one of the most unresolved conflicts in international education policy: whether universal standards for early childhood education can withstand interaction with radically disparate national contexts, political structures, and conceptions of childhood. The World Organization for Early Childhood Education, or OMEP, unites members from over 70 nations in support of…