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Monday, August 20, 2001
http://www.chronicle.com/free/2001/08/2001082001u.htm An Online Program in Teaching Chess Aims to Capture Minds in Elementary Classrooms By DAN CARNEVALE Reading, writing, arithmetic, and rook to queen's six? Many lessons of life can be found on a chessboard, says Alexey W. Root, a senior lecturer at the University of Texas at Dallas.... Ms. Root also says studies have shown that children gain cognitive skills and improve reading comprehension when they learn to play chess. Children can use chess to improve everything from spatial intelligence to self-esteem, she says. So Ms. Root and Tim Redman, a professor of literary studies at the University of Texas at Dallas, have developed an online certificate program to teach teachers how to use chess in their classrooms....
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