News outlets across the country – including The New York Times, ABC News, The Washington
Times and Yahoo! News – picked up a recent Associated Press story about how Ascension, students from the Ferguson-Florissant School District in St. Louis County, and the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis gathered for a year-end celebration of the Your Move Chess program.
The story highlights how Ascension partnered with the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis to offer the after-school chess program to help young people in Ferguson-Florissant. In addition to enhancing critical thinking skills and encouraging the students to challenge themselves, survey data shows that 94 percent of the students say chess has taught them that they can complete difficult tasks. The story notes that Ascension may expand the program.
Here are a few more news sites that ran the story: MSN, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, CT Post, Columbia Missourian, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Monterey Herald, TimesDaily.com, DecaturDaily.com, Salon, Waco Tribune-Herald, Scottsbluff Star-Herald, Belleville News-Democrat, WWTT-TV/WFQX-TV, The Seattle Times, The Daily Progress, Opelika-Auburn News, Houston Chronicle, Austin American-Statesman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The Madison Press, and Business Insider.
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