This paper is the first in a series of working papers on change. The creation of a public education system that aspires to educate all of this nation's children is a great achievement. Yet today this bedrock American institution is at risk. The system continually falls short of its aspiration, and the achievement gap, the drop-out rate, chronic…

Transformational games are digital computer and video applications purposefully designed to create engaging and immersive learning environments for delivering specified learning goals, outcomes and experiences. The virtual world of a transformational game becomes the social environment within which learning occurs as an outcome of the complex…