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Direct linkLaPlaca, Joseph – Tech Directions, 2010
The Edison School of Applied Technology, a comprehensive public high school, has long had a reputation for producing top-notch crafts workers, tradespeople, project managers, estimators, and industry leaders. The school's graduates helped build the city and many currently have successful, productive careers in the public and private sectors. But…
Descriptors: Construction Programs, Partnerships in Education, School Community Programs, High Schools
Burke, Scott; Moore, Tom – Principal Leadership, 2009
When geometry and career and technical education (CTE) are cotaught in the process of building a house, learning is enhanced, test scores improve, and there's a waiting list of students wanting in. Geometry in Construction is a class instructed by the authors--a CTE teacher (Scott Burke) and a mathematics teacher (Tom Moore). While Moore instructs…
Descriptors: Housing Needs, Homeless People, Standardized Tests, Construction Programs
French, Jim – Educational Facility Planner, 2012
One of the deadliest and most destructive tornadoes in the history of the United States ripped through the southeast Missouri town of Joplin on May 22, 2011. As it traveled along a 13-mile path it claimed 161 lives and caused more than $151 million in damages. Ten schools were damaged or destroyed and Joplin High School was a total loss. Just 48…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Weather, High Schools, Community Action
Bauml, Michelle; Davis, O. L., Jr. – American Educational History Journal, 2008
The first two decades of the 20th century breathed a spirit of progressivism into American life. This freshened sense of possibility extended few social and political benefits to Southern African Americans and their impoverished schools. Several Northern influential philanthropists and their foundations initiated and funded multi-year programs in…
Descriptors: African American Students, African American Children, Rural Schools, Rural Population
Leffler, Kelly – Tech Directions, 2006
As the drafting instructor at Tri-County Career Center (TCCC) in Nelsonville, Ohio, the author is proud and pleased to give students real-life drafting experiences that apply learned theory. One of the best experiences his students have had involves taking part in building a custom home. Another is producing authentic house plans. The author also…
Descriptors: Building Design, Architectural Education, Drafting, Vocational Education
Download full textBureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1920
Gloucester, Massachusetts, is about 25 to 75 years behind in the school building program. In the meantime social, industrial, and educational conditions have changed greatly, and it is now a serious menace to the welfare of the children of Gloucester and its coming citizenship that modern school facilities are not provided. Moreover, the people of…
Descriptors: Construction Programs, School Buildings, School Community Relationship, Educational Facilities Improvement
