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By Max Barry, published by Doubleday, 2003.

Based in the Educational Communications and Technology Program in Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, The Games, Learning, and Society group is a collection of academic researchers, interactive media (or game) developers, and government and industry leaders who investigate how interactive media environments or "video games" can be used in education.

By Elizabeth Redden in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Government section, June 6, 2010.

By Paul Basken, in the Government section, Chronicle of Higher Education, Feb 21, 2010. President Obama's education agenda "seeks to inject more accountability into higher education through smarter use of data." This article is available by subscription. To access full text, check with your local library.

MZ has posted the full text (as PDF) in her Coffee Klatch post of Feb 22, 2010.

By Andrea Fuller in the Government section of The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 20, 2010. At North Virginia Community College, President Obama signs legislation that ends the bank-based lending system for student loans. The savings from ending this program will be used to provide spending on education. The president also announces that Jill Biden will lead a community-college summit at the White House in the fall.

By Jack Stripling in Leadership & Governance column, The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 23, 2011. All sitting presidents (except recently hired Donald J. Laackman) of the City Colleges of Chicago "will be forced to reapply for their jobs if they want to keep them,and they must commit to achieving higher student-success rates if they are reappointed...." According to the article, "just 7 percent of City College students who require remediation go on to earn a degree...."

A free nation building simulation game. Inspired by the novel Jennifer Government by Max Barry.

This article in the Aug 8 Chronicle of Higher Ed makes the bold proposal that "we need something grander and more comprehensive, something that will lead to a conceptual sea change in the way the nation understands and deals with the issue of academic underpreparation. "I propose that a wealthy foundation or consortium of foundations support with great fanfare a National Center for the Study and Teaching of Basic Skills. Such a center would have a long-term effect on education, social justice, and economic prosperity." Rose continues, something like the Smithsonian Institution or a National Endowment for Basic Studies.

in the Governments section of The Chronicle of Higher Education, by Jennifer Gonzalez, November 4, 2010. ""Bridge" programs that help adult students acquire the skills necessary to succeed in postsecondary education are gaining momentum and could play a vital role in fulfilling the nation's degree-completion agenda, according to the results of a new study by the Workforce Strategy Center."