In northeast Cobb County, Georgia, there’s an area that doesn’t get nearly as much attention as it should. Wheeler High School has been open quietly since 1965. It is located about 15 miles northwest of downtown Atlanta, on the edge of Marietta. A quiet way to do something until you see who came out of it. A Boston Celtics forward named Jaylen Brown won Most Valuable Player of the 2024 NBA Finals. Brown graduated from Wheeler in 2015. Tope Awotona, who turned Calendly into a $1bn business, walked those halls. He still holds the world record in the 110-meter hurdles,…
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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The frustration that comes from seeing a problem get worse year after year while the people who should be fixing it keep blaming each other gets stronger. That’s about where accreditation for American colleges and universities is now, and Senator Elizabeth Warren has had enough of waiting. Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois is one of Warren’s co-sponsors on the Accreditation Reform and Enhanced Accountability Act of 2026, which was just introduced. Many people who follow education policy have known for years that college accreditors, which are supposed to make sure that schools meet quality standards, have not been doing a…
When school starts, there’s a certain kind of stress: worry about classes, roommates, and getting used to a new routine. So far this summer, the tension at Raleigh, North Carolina’s Shaw University has been replaced by something heavier. A lot of them don’t know if they’ll even have a place to live yet. Shaw told WRAL that Looks into the fact that one of the university’s four dorms, Dimple Newsome, won’t be able to reopen until the fall of 2027, after a fire shut it down in February. Another dorm, Fleming Kee, is still closed indefinitely; the school’s own 2024…
When a major global education organization picks a city in North Africa as the site of its conference, that’s a sign that something important is going on. It doesn’t happen often. When it does, it usually has effects that go far beyond booking hotels and making plans for keynotes. The fact that Rabat was chosen to host OMEP’s 2027 World Annual Conference is one of those small events that has a lot of meaning behind the scenes. The World Organization for Early Childhood Education (OMEP) has worked for many years to connect researchers, teachers, and policymakers who care about the…
When you walk into most Head Start centers in Colorado, the first thing that stands out isn’t the bright crayon drawings on the walls or the low hum of kids learning through play. Teachers are to blame. They look so tired. The number of things they have to deal with—a crying child here, a behavior problem there—and how few people seem to ask them if they’re okay. It turns out that a lot of them aren’t. A disturbing picture is being painted by research from the Colorado School of Public Health. About 46% of the people who work in early…
In Ohio, there is at least one classroom where the teacher doesn’t ask if a student used AI. Now the question is how they used it and what they added that wasn’t in the prompt. It sounds like a small change, but it is making people rethink what academic integrity even means in the year 2025. Kritik is an edtech platform that just released VisibleAI, a tool that keeps track of the writing process in real time. It keeps track of changes made, highlights passages that were helped by AI, and shows teachers not only what a student turned in…
In American classrooms, something has changed. It’s not strong or loud. There is, however, a quiet tension growing in almost every school district in the country. This tension exists between students who already know how to use AI tools and teachers who are still trying to catch up, as well as between schools that have made policy documents and schools that haven’t touched the issue at all. Researchers at Stanford have known about this gap for a while now, and some of them have been working to close it. Victor R. Lee, who is a faculty affiliate at Stanford HAI…
To say that a child’s right to use a toilet or not be stopped from learning how to do it is a political matter is a bit radical. At first, it sounds like the kind of step too far that makes people laugh at the progressive Nordic education policy. But if you think about the case that Swedish OMEP has been making for a while, people tend to stop rolling their eyes. The World Organization for Early Childhood Education (OMEP) has been a part of European childcare policy for a long time. There is a chapter in Sweden that is…
Some types of political shortsightedness look like the right thing to do on paper. Budget cuts like reducing funding for preschool, early intervention programs, and help for low-income families with young children are often seen as examples of good financial management. The savings happen right away. It takes decades for the effects to show over time. And by then, no one has linked the dots. James Heckman put everything together. The Nobel Prize-winning economist from the University of Chicago has spent most of his career using strong data to make the economic case for early childhood education. This is hard…
Stephen Kelly knew something wasn’t right before he could explain it. The science homework that was turned in was so well done and thorough that it was almost scary. One student turned in a paper about brain-eating amoebas that looked like it was written by a doctoral student. Kelly is a teacher in the Boulder Valley School District in Colorado. He had trouble following some of it. The student couldn’t show him how to do the work when asked to. “It was clear that it wasn’t student-generated and that the students weren’t getting anything out of it,” Kelly said. In…