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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.

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

ED Surge

We got 400 applications the first year,” says Strachman, who had previously founded a project-based charter school called Innovations Academy. “We And he wrote the white paper for it around the time of that bagel meetup for the Thiel Fellowship. You may not know that name, but in the tech world, he’s now a big deal.

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