Author: Nelson Rosario

The floor wax, nervous perspiration, and stale coffee from the volunteer table by the door gave the gym the typical smell of college gyms on competition days. Outside, the late-winter wind off the Tittabawassee was rattling the banners SVSU had hung along the entrance walkway and cutting sideways through parking lots. Inside, about two hundred high school students waited for the judges to arrive behind folding tables covered with tablecloths that fell just short of the floor. InformationDetailsEvent NameCardinal Solutions Innovation ChallengeHost InstitutionSaginaw Valley State UniversityLocationUniversity Center, MichiganTotal Prize Pool$53,000Event TypeHigh School Innovation CompetitionEligibilityMichigan high school students, grades 9–12Focus AreasSTEM,…

One type of corporate education announcement has become nearly intolerable to read. Every March, American businesses—especially the major ones—love to introduce glamorous “future of learning” initiatives, complete with hashtags and a video of a kid using a tablet. Nobody can quite recall what was funded, who taught what, or whether any of it made it through the budget review the following quarter, six months later. It was therefore difficult to overlook the difference when ExxonMobil Qatar and Teach For Qatar discreetly announced the extension of a partnership that began in 2014. Partnership SnapshotDetailsLead Corporate PartnerExxonMobil QatarLocal Education PartnerTeach For Qatar…

The way the report was received seems odd. After emerging in late winter and being picked up by a few wires, it settled into the same silence that has surrounded Afghan girls for almost five years. Some editorials. Geneva released a statement. Perhaps forty people attended the panel. Nothing after that. They may have stopped registering because the numbers themselves are not new. 1.5 million girls were prevented from attending secondary school. Women are not allowed to attend universities. Teaching colleges closed. Even the midwifery programs, which the Taliban once accepted as practically essential, have been discontinued. More meticulously than…

If you live in a place like Worrigee or South Nowra and you’ve seen your suburb fill up with new families faster than the local primary school can handle, the news hits you differently even though it’s not the kind of policy announcement that makes for explosive headlines. Free health and development checks will now be available to thousands more preschoolers throughout New South Wales. This modest but significant expansion reveals areas where the state feels its early years system has been lacking. Initiative SnapshotDetailsProgram NameFree Health and Development Checks for PreschoolersGoverning BodyNSW Department of Education and NSW HealthLead MinisterDeputy…

Rome, Georgia’s auditorium had a subtle scent of nervous energy and floor wax, the kind of combination you only get in a school on a big day. Students rummaged through their notes while wearing pressed shirts. Some rehearsed their opening lines in private. The Coosa River was running brown and leisurely outside, unaffected by the prizes being given out a few miles away. Nevertheless, the river had also appeared in an odd way. On that stage, every project owed it something. Watershed Innovation Symposium 2026 — Key InformationEventAnnual Student Watershed Innovation SymposiumHost OrganizationCoosa River Basin InitiativeRegion CoveredFloyd County and surrounding…

The complaint arrived in court in the manner that these cases typically do: quietly, in a pile of documents that most people will never read, but with implications that will soon spread well beyond any one Greensboro courtroom. The Guilford County Board of Education and other defendants are named in the lawsuit, which alleges that the district failed the very children it was obligated to protect. Mark Johnson Jr., a former assistant basketball coach and teacher at Page High School, is seated in the middle of it, staring down a long list of charges that nearly reads like a clerical…

When the light reaches the Oviatt Library in the late afternoon and students move between buildings at the leisurely pace of a school that has always felt more like a neighborhood than an institution, a certain silence descends upon the CSUN campus. It’s the kind of location that is disregarded when discussing California’s elite. Stanford makes headlines. Berkeley is given the honor. The work is done in Northridge, which is nestled in the San Fernando Valley. Perhaps that is why the recent events there are more significant than they may initially seem. Initiative ProfileDetailsLead InstitutionCalifornia State University, Northridge (CSUN)Program NameGlobal…

The International Journal of Early Childhood is frequently mentioned in discussions that seem to have nothing to do with academic publishing. A Nairobi policy brief. A curriculum review in Bogotá and a pedagogy debate in Helsinki. The journal, which is the type of publication that researchers take off the shelf when they need something reliable to rely on, sits quietly beneath a large portion of it. It is currently published by Springer Nature, but its true foundation is OMEP, the World Organization for Early Childhood Education, which was established in 1948 in war-torn Europe. That’s a lineage. It’s evident in…

On a Saturday morning, you can occasionally spot a child sitting cross-legged on the floor of a small bookstore in Brussels, mouthing the words of a picture book about a dragon that won’t flex his muscles for an election. One of those things you come across and assume must already exist everywhere is the book, which is a part of a quiet, almost obstinate project called Sustainable Stories. It doesn’t. InformationDetailsInitiativeSustainable StoriesFoundersA father-and-daughter team based in BelgiumHeadquartersBelgiumFocus Age GroupChildren aged 5 to 10 yearsCore ThemesThe 17 Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the UNApproachStorytelling, illustration, classroom engagement, entrepreneurial mindsetFeatured TitleDragon’s Might…

Suburban neighborhoods now have a certain silence that did not exist twenty years ago. On a Saturday afternoon, you might hear lawnmowers, a dog, and the occasional car as you pass a row of homes. Children are something you don’t hear very often. Bicycles left sideways on driveways, abandoned lots, and partially constructed tree forts have all diminished. It’s possible that parents have just stopped talking about their children’s whereabouts. However, the data contradicts this. In every nation, children are spending less time outside than any previous generation. InformationDetailTopic FocusAccess to nature and outdoor play in early childhoodRecommended Daily Outdoor…