meditation and education

Meditation may boost teen memory

Alison Pearce Stevens, Society for Science & the Public: If you tend to forget your homework or are easily distracted,…

December 14, 2015

Schools in San Francisco implement meditation & students’ happiness and academic success soars

Jennifer Chait, Inhabitots: We’ve seen yoga, standing desks and vegetarian lunches turn troubled schools around, but we’ve never seen meditation…

November 12, 2015

Mindfulness enhances kindness and wellbeing in kids

Brigitte Najjar, Ripple Kindness: If there was a way to potentially help kids pay better attention, exercise more generosity and…

October 27, 2015

To help students focus, we could use less medication and more meditation

Michigan Radio: There is a lot of pressure in schools these days. From the early grades through high school, students…

October 13, 2015

Cuddly robot monk is here to answer your questions on Buddhism!

Daniel Paul, Shanghaiist: The future has landed in the form of a chubby robot monk unveiled at Beijing's Dragon Spring…

October 8, 2015

How mindfulness is so good at connecting well-being to academic achievement in class

The Mindfulness Pedagogy: There is a rhythm to all complex behaviour. When energy is expended it must be restored (stay…

August 20, 2015

Teach mindfulness, invite happiness

Erin Sharaf, Edutopia: By objective measures, our young people are more anxious, more depressed, and have more psychopathology in general…

August 17, 2015

Why some schools are making time for meditation

Jessica Kendorski, Philly.com: Full disclosure, I mediate almost every day, and I’m in good company. Each year more and more…

August 12, 2015

Why meditation should be taught in schools

Lea Waters, The Conversation: New research in the fields of psychology, education and neuroscience shows teaching meditation in schools is…

July 17, 2015

Is mindfulness a technique that can help kids succeed?

News.com.au: I’m in a small room with 25 other people. At our teacher’s instruction, we are all sitting very still,…

July 14, 2015