Game Spurs Learning
TEACHER DESCRIBES CHESS AS BRAIN FOOD FOR STUDENTS
Posted: September 27, 2012 at 5:16 a.m.
Sabrina DeJesus makes a chess move during a match Wednesday at Lingle Middle School in Rogers. Players get an early start, with chess matches starting at 7:30 a.m.
Girls are playing chess at Birch Kirksey Middle School. Nearly two-thirds of the 30 students who trickle into Lee Van Allen’s classroom Wednesday mornings are girls. That is something unusual in the world of chess, said Katherine Hudson, REACH facilitator at the school.
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