A "green" school building is a high-performance structure with technologies that collect and reprocess energy, rainwater, and waste.
Interior design is shaping the educational experience.
Designing for all children in schools, pre-K and early childhood programs.
Adaptive reuse of a courthouse as two 500-student schools illustrates typical challenges and solutions.
Keeping school computers secure is not as easy as you might think.
To be efficient, a school needs to be secure against the weather, including water, wind, heat, and cold. This means it needs to be watertight and well insulated.
New furniture and furnishings support new approaches to science instruction.
New sources of fiscal distress, demographic shifts such as the aging population and the increasing size of minority groups, and globalization are transforming the education landscape and creating new curriculum and financial challenges.
A federal program called Safe Routes To School funds programs that encourage kids to walk to school.
It is important to incorporating fire protection design during school renovations.
A Little Bit of Technology for a Lot of Learning
It takes preplanning to get the most effective results.
Funds for the first phase of a planned school building program have been released after teams of architects and engineers assess hundreds of schools for the state.
School Planning & Management asked experts who are involved in various education-related fields to describe what they see as new and significant changes in regard to K-12 education. Their responses are as follows.
More and more schools are insisting that their cleaning is green.
Since January is the month to look towards the future, then December should be the time to look back at what happened this past year.