Chess for Credit

Here's an article from the NY Times about graduate-level course whose goal is to "improve teaching by guiding a group of teachers through the problem-solving strategies that are part of a good chess player's arsenal". It's using chess to try to teach teachers to teach their students to think instead of just regurgitate information. There's a novel concept!

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/12/education/12teach.html?8hpib