Mindfulness Migrates From The Corporate Office To The Classroom

New research supports the idea that students learn focus and self-control through mindfulness exercises

Five years ago, "grit" was all the rage in elementary education. Students who learn to persevere in the face of failure are more successful in the long term, research suggested. Schools embraced the idea—and then over-embraced it, with some going so far as to institute assessments designed to measure "grittiness."

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