A Research and Demonstration Project:

Students in America suffer from high rates of classroom stress, clinical depression, learning disorders, and early cardiovascular disease, and from low rates of academic achievement. These problems in education, in turn, contribute to lack of adult achievement and success, poor health, and societal stress.

Watch the NBC
Today Show feature
“TM in Schools”

The Problem
of stress

Benefits reported
by students

The purpose of this project is to evaluate the effects of the Transcendental Meditation program on student health and development—intellectual, social, emotional, and academic. The site is American University in Washington, D.C., with participation from surrounding college campuses, including Georgetown University, George Washington University, Howard University, the Corcoran College of Art + Design.