Author: Nelson Rosario

Oklahoma City has a method for accomplishing this. Every May, the city absorbs a certain kind of tension that permeates Devon Park bleachers, emanates from the red dirt infield, and transforms everyday Wednesday nights into a topic of conversation for years. The 2026 Women’s College World Series has arrived on time, and based on the final week of games, it is already fulfilling all of the promises made by the bracket in May. The No. 2 Texas Longhorns and the No. 11 Texas Tech Red Raiders square off in a best-of-three championship series; the first team to win two games…

The notion that a location intended for healing can occasionally make you sicker is particularly cruel. When you enter a hospital with a broken bone or a failing gallbladder, you typically leave feeling better and thankful. However, for over 500,000 Americans each year, something unplanned occurs. Nosocomial infections, also referred to as healthcare-associated infections or HAIs, are infections that patients contract while undergoing treatment for another condition. The definition is clear: an infection is considered nosocomial if it was neither present nor incubating at the time of admission and usually appears at least 48 hours after a patient enters a…

When you attempt to register a car, start a small business, or apply for a professional license for the first time, a certain kind of frustration sets in. One form leads to another when you fill it out. Next, a charge. After that, there is a waiting period. At last, a certificate stating that you are officially recognized by the government is delivered, which is frequently a little wet from the envelope. What just took place? You registered. And that procedure, as routine as it may seem at the time, is among the most ancient tasks carried out by any…

When someone stops fighting something they are powerless to change, a certain kind of peace descends upon them. It is silent, almost hesitant. And for centuries now, the phrase “que sera, sera” has been able to encapsulate that emotion nearly flawlessly. Doris Day introduced the phrase to the majority of people. In 1956, she was cast by Alfred Hitchcock in The Man Who Knew Too Much, a movie about a mother frantically attempting to contact her son who had been abducted inside a foreign embassy. She sits down at a piano and starts singing loudly in one of the film’s…

When a child doesn’t recognize themselves in anything on the walls, a certain kind of silence descends upon the classroom. They were not exposed to any language as children. No tale that resembles theirs. There isn’t a single historical account that portrays their people as anything more than a footnote or, worse, an issue that needed to be resolved. That silence has been the everyday reality of attending school for generations of Indigenous children in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. Additionally, the majority of education policymakers ignored it or treated it as a non-issue for the same amount…

If you’ve been around university hallways lately, you’ve probably noticed that there has been a change in the field of early childhood research. There is less noise in the offices. The younger faculty members are agitated. Additionally, some of the most well-known figures in early childhood education and care are taking a different route after years of publishing, giving lectures, and moving up the academic ladder. Some are turning to organizations like OMEP, the World Organization for Early Childhood Education, which was established in 1948 and currently operates in over 60 countries. OMEP has created something that universities, despite their…

In conference rooms where policy experts and educators sit across from one another and speak over one another, a certain kind of frustration quietly grows. The World Organization for Early Childhood Education, or OMEP, has spent the better part of the last ten years attempting to close that gap by advocating for something that, when stated out loud, sounds almost obvious: if the children who will actually live through 2030 and beyond are hardly represented in the framework intended to safeguard their future, the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations cannot be meaningfully achieved. Whether the UN’s larger policy…

Over decades, a certain kind of frustration develops. The kind that results from being heard, applauded, and then subtly shelved rather than completely ignored. For the better part of 76 years, the World Organization for Early Childhood Education, or OMEP as it is known in French, has been managing that particular conflict. OMEP was founded in Prague in 1948 in the unadulterated aftermath of a war that had devoured children as casually as it had everything else. The organization was founded on the simple belief that a child’s early years are too important to be considered a domestic afterthought. At…

Somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa, there is a child who will never sit in a classroom. Not because it’s against her parents’ wishes. Not because there isn’t a school nearby that can be reached on foot. However, no one made any investments in her brain between the ages of 0 and 3, when it was most prepared to take in the world. The gap had already developed by the time she was old enough to attend elementary school; it was imperceptible, unyielding, and nearly impossible to bridge. This type of discovery is often overlooked in scholarly journals and conference proceedings. However,…

Conference rooms are home to a certain type of irony. Before the ink dries, the world moves on. Hundreds of people travel from all over the world, sit through days of deliberation, and produce documents that could actually change how governments treat their youngest citizens. That’s essentially what transpired in Bangkok during the 76th OMEP World Assembly and Conference held at Chulalongkorn University last July, and the discrepancy between what was decided and what was reported warrants more than a cursory look. On their own terms, the numbers are striking. 580 people took part. 52 nations. The meeting rooms of…