Newsmax – Cathy Burke
“The federal Department of Education is spending millions on a program for 3,000 schools in Chicago to teach a meditation technique aimed to help youngsters calm down — and get better grades. The “Calm Classroom” program — funded through the federal department’s “investing in innovation fund” — involves a technique known as “mindfulness,” a form of meditation in which people focus their full attention on the present moment…The four-year, $2.5 million grant for 3,000 public schools in Chicago was awarded late last year to the Erikson Institute, The Washington Free Beacon reports. “This is an invaluable project because social-emotional learning in children is just as important as academic learning,” the Institute’s chief executive officer, Geoffrey Nagle, says in a statement announcing the grant.”(more)