Author: Nelson Rosario

Kids who are left to their own devices outside can cause a certain kind of chaos. A log is pulled across a yard. Someone gets their shirt caught in a tree. As a child kneels down next to a puddle and draws with a stick in the mud. There are no guards around. No one is stepping in. The World Organization for Early Childhood Education (OMEP Spain) says that where it looks like chaos is where something important is being built. The position of OMEP Spain is so interesting that it’s been noticed by people outside of academia. Without much…

When you leave a certain type of conference, you feel both professionally energized and loose in a quiet way. That kind of meeting took place at the 76th World Assembly and International Conference of the World Organization for Early Childhood Education (OMEP) in Bangkok in July of last year. There were about 400 people from all over the world there, but it wasn’t a well-planned celebration of progress. There was more of an honest reckoning about it. OMEP has been around since 1948. It works in more than 60 countries and has been fighting for children’s rights since the very…

Teachers and administrators in American public schools have felt a certain kind of frustration for decades, but they haven’t been able to put it into words that are clear enough to describe it. When a teacher comes up with a new way to teach or a small change to the way she does things, her students respond. Scores on tests change. Engagement gets better. The word gets passed along the hall and maybe even to the next building. Most of the time, the idea stops after that. It doesn’t go anywhere. It doesn’t get bigger. When that teacher moves schools,…

Early childhood educators are very familiar with a certain kind of anger. The money comes in, sometimes in large amounts and sometimes just barely enough, and then it disappears quietly after a few budget cycles. In just one fiscal year, programs that took years to build are taken apart. The teachers quit. Those on wait lists get longer. Again, parents are left in a mess. That cycle might be getting close to a real test. A bill backed by the Organization Mondiale pour l’Éducation Préscolaire (OMEP) is making its way through the legislative chambers in three U.S. states. Its goal…

If you walk through the halls of any big British university right now, you can feel that something is changing. Money is tighter. Technology, engineering, and making the country more resilient are now top priorities for the government. And places that used to get their power from prestige are now quietly asking themselves what will happen next. In light of this, the news that King’s College London and Cranfield University have signed a Memorandum of Understanding doesn’t come as a surprise. This is the first official step toward the two schools becoming one in August 2027. Maybe it’s even past…

Getting told to take vitamin D in the winter sounds like something you’ve heard before. Every October, it’s said again and again: put your coat away, get your booster shot, and grab a bottle of vitamin D from the pharmacy shelf. A lot of people do it without giving it much thought. Take whatever is handy, drink a glass of water with it, and think the job is done. Two studies from the University of Surrey, however, suggest that this assumption may need to be carefully looked at again. The more surprising of the two results comes from a big…

There is a small, quietly sure of itself organization in St. Louis, Missouri, that most people have never heard of. In some ways, that’s on purpose. Harvest Christian University doesn’t see itself as a rival to state universities or schools that get money from the federal government. It is based on a completely different set of ideas: religious freedom, indigenous educational sovereignty, ecclesiastical authority, and what it calls a “royal charter framework.” Whether you find that interesting or compelling probably tells us something about how you feel about who gets to decide what education is real. It is important to…

At some point, almost all great college sports stories make you look away from the scoreboard and at the team itself. How they go from one play to the next. The things they do when things go wrong. That’s where the real character usually shows up: not in the final score, but in the small decisions that have to be made quickly. Those kinds of moments have been happening a lot on the Daredevil college team. After putting together a team that didn’t exactly stand out during recruiting season, this group has quietly earned a reputation for playing just on…

It’s almost symbolic that an institution that has been around for 800 years has decided it doesn’t want its money to be tied to the industries that have powered the last two hundred years. The fact that Cambridge University said it would stop investing in fossil fuels altogether by 2030 is seen by some as a moral move. But when you look more closely, it seems more like a structural shift—the kind that is hard to undo. By December 2020, the university plans to pull its money out of public equity managers that focus on conventional energy. By 2025, it…

That building is on the edge of the City of London campus. Most of the students there couldn’t tell you much about St. George’s University of London if you asked them last year. That changed in 2024, when both institutions said they were going to join together. Suddenly, two very different academic worlds were being asked to merge: one based on business, law, and engineering, and the other on medicine and health care. This is the kind of news that gets a paragraph in the business press and a longer, more tense conversation in the common areas of colleges. An…