There's a story about the Executive Director of New York's Chess-in-the-Schools in yesterday's New York Times (free login required)
IN 1994, Marley Kaplan saw an ad for a half-time job at a not-for-profit organization. The pay: $25,000 a year.
That was a steep cut for a woman who had been earning a six-figure income in investment banking[....]
Today Ms. Kaplan is president of Chess-in-the-Schools, which now teaches 20,000 new children a year, with an annual budget of $3 million. Since 1986, it calculates, it has taught chess to 425,000 children on the theory that the game helps them develop basic analytical skills that lead to academic success.
yes it could
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