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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. The Findings.

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

ED Surge

The year was 2010, and Michael Gibson found himself on the first day of a research job at a hedge fund run by the controversial billionaire Peter Thiel. It’s a cause that Thiel has long championed, and a friend there tipped Gibson off that the libertarian billionaire was looking for a researcher at his fund. in it at Oxford University.

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