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Making Time for Mindfulness

Digital Promise

While small, the study of sixth-graders at a Boston charter school adds to a still-growing body of research about a role for mindfulness in the classroom. They designed a study focusing on sixth-graders in another Boston-area school. Provide teachers with dedicated time to engage in mindfulness practice themselves.

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How a Billionaire’s Fellowship Spread Skepticism About College’s Value

ED Surge

That movie, which everyone in Silicon Valley and in the culture at large was talking about, was “The Social Network,” depicting the contentious creation of Facebook. We got 400 applications the first year,” says Strachman, who had previously founded a project-based charter school called Innovations Academy. “We

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