Do gender differences affect student achievement?
by Linda Egenes

Transcendental Meditation for Women    Translate This Article
30 June 2014

The Excellence in Action page of Global Good News is featuring this article with photos.

Please click on the following link to read more about 'Do gender differences affect student achievement?'

Writer Linda Egenes explores several initiatives to improve educational achievements for both girls and boys, including single-gender education, as well as gender-specific education.

'One thing is clear: girls and boys alike are struggling with stress today, and stress can make it hard to focus,' she writes. 'Some schools are helping their students experience academic success without stress by introducing the Transcendental Meditation technique. By meditating for a few minutes at the beginning and end of the school day, many children—along with their parents and teachers—are reporting a wide range of positive benefits due to their meditation sessions, from better grades to better behavior to feeling happier.

'Even kids with ADHD—which affects more boys than girls—can be helped by meditating. Here are some comments from kids with ADHD:

' ''TM helped me with my schoolwork, I'm not getting as frustrated with friends, doing my homework better, not getting in as many fights at school, stuff like that.''

' ''I'm more calm, less hyper and more mature than I was before. Now all my friends want me to come over to their house.'' '

Ms Egenes also refers to research, 'a random-assignment controlled study published in 2012 in Mind & Brain, The Journal of Psychiatry (Vol 2, No 1) [that] found improved brain functioning and decreased symptoms of ADHD in students practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique.'

Enjoy the full article on the Excellence in Action page.

Copyright © 2014 Transcendental Meditation Program for Women



Translation software is not perfect; however if you would like to try it, you can translate this page using:

(Google) Select a language English to Afrikaans English to Albanian English to Arabic English to Belarusian English to Bulgarian English to Catalan English to Chinese (Simplified) English to Chinese (Traditional) English to Croatian English to Czech English to Danish English to Dutch English to Estonian English to Filipino English to Finnish English to French English to Galician English to German English to Greek English to Hebrew English to Hindi English to Hungarian English to Icelandic English to Indonesian English to Irish English to Italian English to Japanese English to Korean English to Latvian English to Lithuanian English to Macedonian English to Malay English to Maltese English to Norwegian English to Persian English to Polish English to Portuguese English to Romanian English to Russian English to Serbian English to Slovak English to Slovenian English to Spanish English to Swahili English to Swedish English to Thai English to Turkish English to Ukrainian English to Vietnamese English to Welsh English to Yiddish

(Altavista babelfish) Select a languageEnglish to Chinese-simpEnglish to Chinese-tradEnglish to DutchEnglish to PortugueseEnglish to FrenchEnglish to GermanEnglish to GreekEnglish to ItalianEnglish to JapaneseEnglish to KoreanEnglish to RussianEnglish to Spanish