From Joystiq:

The first semester of New York City’s Quest to Learn began last week on the 9th, with an inaugural class of around 75 sixth graders in NYC’s Chelsea neighborhood taking classes that employ games (of all types) in learning. "One thing I want to emphasize: this is not a school about just playing video games … this is a school that uses the system of games to deliver rich discussion," the school’s principal, Aaron Schwartz, told Joystiq over the phone this morning. "We use games as a medium here." Education at Quest to Learn is delivered through a variety of means other than games, though game systems are a focus for teaching the specific subset of student that Q2L targets: "digital kids."