One type of researcher writes about AI in education, while another type actually knows what happens when a teacher stands in front of a class and wonders if the new AI tool her school bought for grading is making things better or worse in a quiet way. The second group is made up of Hannah Anush. The Global Recognition Awards this year confirmed what many people in her field had been saying in private for a while: they gave her the 2026 prize in the Research category for a body of work that combines AI, healthcare, and education in a…
Author: Nelson Rosario
Nelson Rosario
Nelson Rosario is an Editor at worldomep.org and a law school student who has found, somewhere in the intersection of legal theory and human development, a cause worth building a career around: ensuring that every child has access to quality education and the healthcare they need to thrive. Nelson approaches child advocacy with the analytical precision of a person who has been taught to analyze systems, spot flaws, and make the case for change. His knowledge of how policies are made, where they fall short, and what it would take to hold institutions accountable for the children they are meant to serve has improved as a result of his legal education. His support, however, goes beyond academics. It stems from a sincere belief that early childhood health and education are not being adequately addressed by the legal and social frameworks in many places. Nelson adds a legal and policy perspective to discussions about child welfare through his contributions to worldomep.org, asking not only what ought to be done but also what can be required, safeguarded, and upheld.
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Something quietly interesting about the fact that Poland was chosen as the site for one of the most important conferences on early childhood education this decade. It’s not a coincidence. The 78th OMEP World Assembly and World Conference will be held in Poznań in July 2026. The choice to hold it in Poland is significant in a way that most international education summits never are. “When a Child Speaks: Korczak’s Inspirations for Education and Children’s Rights” is the title of the conference. That name, Korczak, is more important than most people outside of education might think. Janusz Korczak was a…
A certain type of story about Gen Z AI is told a lot. Artificial intelligence has been quickly accepted by a generation that grew up with smartphones, TikTok, and instant answers. They see it as just another tool in their already full digital lives. They are the locals. They understand. Everyone else is getting caught up. The data are making that story a lot more difficult to follow. The Walton Family Foundation, GSV Ventures, and Gallup did a survey earlier this year and found that 51% of Gen Zers (people born between 1997 and 2012) say they use generative AI…
Having a press tour or giving a TED Talk doesn’t give you all the power you need. It’s talked about in government advisory rooms, in the notes at the end of curriculum frameworks, and in the quiet changes that a country makes to how it treats its youngest citizens. That spot is taken by Nóirín Hayes. She has spent decades working at the point where children’s rights, developmental psychology, and early childhood education policy meet. The impact of her work is starting to reach far beyond Ireland. As well as being a Professor Emerita at Technological University Dublin, Hayes is…
You might feel a little uneasy when you walk into a Head Start classroom and realize that the teacher helping a three-year-old deal with her first social problem probably makes less than the barista who made your coffee in the morning. That’s not meant to be a heavy comparison. It seems to be the case when you look at early childhood education in Colorado, where the average hourly wage is $18.50 and 46% of the workers depend on public assistance programs like Medicaid and SNAP to make ends meet. Just seeing that number should make you think. These are the…
Different early childhood classrooms all over the world have the same kind of scene. Four-year-olds are sitting around a table covered in blocks and quietly competing by putting the blocks in order by shape. Every once in a while, one of them will ask a question that seems to come out of nowhere. There is a teacher nearby who doesn’t say anything but nudges—”What do you think would happen if you put the bigger ones at the bottom?”—and then steps back. There’s nothing about it that looks like school. But more and more studies show that it may work better…
Almost every public debate has a point where the argument stops being about the problem and starts being about the argument itself. The movement against racist education in Britain, and more and more in the rest of the Western world, is right now deep in that moment. As the controversy grows, it gets harder to talk about what’s really going on in classrooms without being judged for taking a side. It’s hard to believe how much stress English teachers are under these days. Reading lists used to be based on how well the writing was, how emotionally complex the stories…
When Aaron Anderson and Dana Armstrong Hughes hired someone to teach UC Davis’s new entrepreneurship class, they didn’t look for an experienced professor or someone who had already started a business. Alice Dien was brought in. She was working on her Ph.D. in biological systems engineering and had spent years working in the field on problems that most people don’t think about until they’re standing next to a broken dryer in a California farm. That little thing does matter more than it seems. “Innovation for Impact: Food Systems” is the newest course in UC Davis’s “Hacking 4” series. The series…
An interesting kind of tension settles over a discussion about child care in Britain. If you ask a working parent how they are doing, they will probably either laugh tiredly or give you a number. They will probably talk about monthly fees that are like a mortgage payment, waiting lists that began before the child was born, and the constant worry that the place they finally found might not be very good. That last worry has been on the minds of OMEP UK, the national committee of the World Organization for Early Childhood Education, for a while now. The organization…
When humanitarian workers talk about what they saw, one scene keeps coming up near the Islam Qala border crossing on the western edge of Afghanistan. Mothers with children who have been traveling for days and don’t know where they are going next are waiting for someone to tell them what to do while sitting under temporary shade structures. The kids are quiet in the way that kids are quiet when they think their parents are scared. This scene has been seen before. But because of how big it is now, in 2025 and 2026, it’s in a whole different group.…