Author: Kelsey Myers

On the outskirts of Villavicencio, past the Caracolí condominium, a school sits on a piece of land that gradually opens up as you approach it, a few hundred meters down a road that doesn’t announce anything noteworthy. There are sports courts. There are green areas on both sides. Children move freely between the classroom and the outdoors, which makes it seem more like a planned part of the day than recess. The first thing you should know about Stanford School is that it has nothing to do with the California university, aside from the fact that they both have aspirations…

Seeing a man who once dunked on the entire NBA realize that he actually needed more homework is subtly amazing. Shaquille O’Neal received his fifth degree overall on May 16, 2026, when he crossed a stage at Louisiana State University to accept a Master of Liberal Arts degree. His name, “Shaquille ‘I Hate Charles Barkley’ O’Neal,” was called by the announcer, and the crowd seemed to enjoy every moment of it. That is very Shaq. The man manages to make a moment into theater even while wearing a cap and gown. Beneath the joke, however, is something that merits more…

The operations of one of the state’s more ambitious public school systems are discreetly housed in a modest administrative complex named for Lillie Delgado at 1311 Round Rock Avenue in Round Rock, Texas. It doesn’t make an announcement from the outside. Inside, a district that serves about 46,000 students in 60 schools operates with a level of structured complexity that most people only become aware of when something goes wrong. This has long been the practice of the Round Rock Independent School District. Founded in May 1913 after Williamson County authorized the establishment of what was then a two-school organization,…

Imagine a Tuesday afternoon in 2008 or 2009 at Las Vegas High School. Aluminum bats ringing out against fastballs, dry desert heat looming over the fields, and somewhere in the middle of it all was a sixteen-year-old outfielder who didn’t quite belong there. Not because he caused problems. Because everyone who saw him knew that he was just too good. By design, Bryce Harper’s tenure at Las Vegas High School was brief but had a significant impact. He hit numbers while playing for the Wildcats that made scouts gasp.625 in a single season, including five strikeouts, 36 base steals, 14…

When those in charge of schools, which are meant to serve as models of accountability, fairness, and order, consistently fail at all three, a certain kind of frustration develops. One of the biggest public school systems in Louisiana, Lafayette Parish School System, is currently experiencing that kind of frustration. Almost thirty thousand pupils. over 4,000 workers. Additionally, the organization that supports them both appears to have lost focus at some point. Comeaux High School has been the most obvious flashpoint. When the Lafayette Parish School Board decided to close the school in March, students protested by pouring out into the…

In the bottom of the seventh inning, when the bases are loaded, the score is tied, and no one in the stadium is sure what will happen next, a certain kind of tension develops. Most people anticipate a swing. Perhaps a strikeout. A ground ball that quietly ends the inning and forces extra innings. They don’t anticipate a suicide squeeze, which is now practically unheard of. However, the Florida high school baseball community hasn’t fully recovered from what South Walton High School called on May 15, 2026, at Hammond Stadium in Fort Myers. For a championship game, the setup was…

Carlos Boozer’s origin story has an almost cinematic quality, and it begins in an unexpected place. One of the most complete power forwards of his NBA generation learned how to control a game in Juneau, Alaska, a city more known for fishing boats and glaciers than basketball arenas. The geography is more important than most people realize, so it’s worth taking a moment to consider that. When Boozer was eight years old, his family had moved to Juneau from Washington, D.C., after a tragedy that is hard to put into words without losing its impact. According to Boozer, a childhood…

In May 2025, a legal battle between two small spiritual schools over Google search advertisements was resolved in a federal courtroom in San Francisco, leaving behind a convoluted record and a great deal of false information that continues to circulate online. Located in the redwood country of Humboldt County, Arcata, California, is a coastal college town with a certain laid-back vibe. It features historic Victorian homes and a main square surrounded by bookstores and coffee shops, making it feel a little cut off from the bustle of the outside world. It is also, somewhat paradoxically, the location of the University…

Nataliya Kosmyna made an uncommon choice in a research lab at MIT’s Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts: she published a study prior to peer review. She was afraid of what might occur if she waited, not because the results were not complete. Peer review can take up to eight months. She was concerned that during that time, a policymaker might decide that integrating AI into kindergarten curricula was a good idea. The study had to be published. Right now. “Developing brains are at the highest risk,” she stated bluntly. Over the course of several months, 54 participants from the Boston…

The Museum of Menorca is located in Mao, a small harbor city on the smallest Balearic island in Spain. It is surrounded by historic stone walls and has the unique peace that comes from being a little out of the mainstream. It’s an improbable setting for discussing artificial intelligence. However, for three days in late April 2026, it hosted some of the most important questions in cognitive education—not in any grand, declarative way, but in the particular, sometimes contentious, always fascinating way of those who actually work with children in classrooms, chess clubs, and, in one exceptional instance, operating theaters.…