Author: Nelson Rosario

The University of Houston System has grown over the years in a way that seems almost planned. There was no one big announcement. There was no viral moment. Just a steady buildup of campuses, degrees, students, and power, spread out over one of the most important cities in the U.S. economy. The UH System now has three different universities with more than 70,000 students. Each year, it brings in more than $3 billion for the Texas economy. That’s a big number. Still, outside of Houston, it doesn’t get nearly as much attention as a system that big might seem to…

In one version of this story, Antonio Brown never gets there. Florida State said no. Not allowed to attend Florida International. Going back and forth between prep schools without a clear way forward. He really should be thankful that he found Central Michigan in the first place, and even more grateful that they liked something about him enough to keep him. Brown grew up in Miami. His father, Eddie “Touchdown” Brown, was a professional football player in the Arena Football League. It was always in my blood to play football. And having talent doesn’t help if doors keep closing on…

These days, it doesn’t happen very often in Washington that two senators from different parties sit down together at a table and agree on something important. It was really strange when Sen. Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas, and Sen. Maria Cantwell, a Democrat from Washington, introduced the Protect College Sports Act together. Don’t say that because the bill is perfect. It’s not. But because the problem they’re trying to solve is real, messy, and the government has needed to step in for a long time. It’s been years since college sports were really ready to go. After the NIL…

This kind of college doesn’t get much attention in the news, but it does something very important: it gives people a real second chance. That kind of place is North Hertfordshire College, which people in the area call NHC. It takes place in a part of Hertfordshire that most people drive through without stopping. It has campuses in Stevenage, Hitchin, and Letchworth Garden City. Still, it’s been the place where things really clicked for tens of thousands of students over the past 30 years. Because of changes in how further education was run in Hertfordshire, NHC was created on April…

A building at Iowa State University is known as the Durham Computation Center. Most likely, most of the students don’t even notice it as they walk by. The world’s first electronic digital computer, the Atanasoff-Berry Computer, was built right here in Ames, Iowa, in the basement of the Physics Building, around 1939. There is a copy of that computer inside. Just that fact should be enough to turn people off. The machine that made the digital age possible wasn’t made in Silicon Valley. A math and physics professor named John Atanasoff and a graduate student named Clifford Berry built it…

There’s a different side to JJ Watt’s story that is never told at the banquets for recruiting. The highly rated prospect doesn’t get to choose from a long list of schools that have offered him a spot. People are quieter and less comfortable in this version. A kid from Pewaukee, Wisconsin, has two stars next to his name on a recruiting website and gets the attention you’d expect for that. Not a lot. Rivals.com didn’t put him in the top ten tight ends in the country. Scout.com didn’t do it either. No one had him on their short list of…

Almost every time someone thinks about going to a faith-based school, they ask a question that has nothing to do with theology or campus life. It has to do with credentials. That question is very important for students thinking about Harvest Christian University. Accreditation is more than just a stamp from the government. It tells you if your credits will transfer, if employers will accept your degree, and if you can even get federal student aid. When someone looking at your transcript asks you a question you weren’t ready for, that kind of detail feels like it’s just something that…

It’s a little scary to think that 40% of people in the UK are making some of the most important decisions of their lives (like mortgages, pensions, and emergency savings) without really understanding how money grows or shrinks. It doesn’t seem like a number from a wealthy, developed country. And yet, that’s exactly what the most recent results from The Richmond Project show. The charity was started by former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Akshata Murty. It just released the second part of its Number Nation study, which is said to be the biggest look at math and money skills…

During an explanation, many teachers have said they have stood at the front of the class and seen a student’s eyes go glassy. Not really out of boredom. It’s more like absence. It’s as if the kid is there physically but is mentally taking a break, ready to return to something faster, louder, and more responsive. That moment might have been there in some form for a long time. Now, though, it feels different—more often and harder to stop. It has some weight because of the numbers. Teenagers in the United States spend more than eight hours a day watching…

This is something that many parents know all too well. Your two-year-old sees the box with the cartoon character on it while you’re in the cereal aisle. It starts to scream before you even get close. It’s not by chance. That’s exactly how it was meant to happen. Kids who don’t want to eat have long been seen as a parenting issue that can be fixed by finding creative ways to hide vegetables, making reward charts, or just being patient. But more and more research, some of it linked to early childhood education networks like OMEP Aotearoa, is challenging that…