http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3370/microsoft-and-universities-will-study-using-games-to-teach-middle-school-students A multi-campus, Microsoft-supported project will study how to use games to teach math and science. The Games for Learning Institute is a consortium,
involv[ing] New York University and a consortium of other institutions — the City University of New York, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Parsons the New School for Design, and the Rochester Institute of...