Introduce students to the original board of education.

http://www.edutopia.org/pick-pieces

ALSO SEE -  RESEARCH AND BENEFITS OF CHESS

Disclaimaer:  the following is not intended to be a book recomendation, but a vidio look at WHY CHESS

Author David Shenk has written the definitive work on Alzheimer's – The Forgetting.

“We face in our modern, splintered world not only a crisis in education, but more pointedly a crisis of understanding – of thought and of willingness to engage in thought.” Thinking tools like chess, Shenk argues, can “help our minds expand, grow comfortable with abstraction and learn to navigate complex systems.”

David Shenk - Chess, "The Immortal Game" (less than 4 min)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWN1eGPAq-s

@ GOOD MORNING AMERICA (less than 5 min.)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-171374104176431873&hl=en

@ BOOK PASSAGE (less than 5 min)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2276311590297837762&hl=en

@ MICROSOFT (less than 45 min.)

http://content.digitalwell.washington.edu/msr/external_release_talks_12_05_2005/13832/lecture.htm