NPR has the story of Larry Graykin, a Language Arts teacher at Barrington Middle School who has developed a role-playing game that helps his students learn in an exploratory fashion. You can give it a listen
here, and visit Mr. Graykin's Diddorol website
here.
And on US Weekly's website, one of the 25 things that we didn't know about Anderson Cooper was that he used to be a "D&D geek" as a kid. You can learn the other 24 things
here.