This document contains the concluding chapters of the final report on the Project on Social Architecture in Education. Chapter 10 reviews the case studies and begins with some comments on the question of implementation success, both ultimate and intermediate. The discussion then moves to each of the six basic primary tasks--political…

This document contains chapter 6 of the final report of the Project on Social Architecture in Education. Five case studies were produced from the data collected at each site, using a common outline developed from the conceptual framework. Chapter 6 is about two schools that emphasized open education in new open-space settings, in a small, suburban…

This report stems from an extended inquiry into the planning and implementation of new, innovative schools, seen as a useful but failure-prone strategy for educational improvement. The Project on Social Architecture in Education studied the processes and outcomes of efforts to create three elementary and three secondary schools in public urban and…

This document contains chapter 8 of the final report of the Project on Social Architecture in Education. Chapter 8 contains two case studies, set in a large urban district with an entrenched central office bureaucracy and a militant teachers' union. The pressures of a fiscal crisis surrounded both efforts. College High School was intended to serve…

This document contains chapter 7 of the final report of the Project on Social Architecture in Education. Chapter 7 is about a new open-space elementary school. The hopes were to create a humanely oriented, flexible program, in which teaching teams would utilize the open space in creative ways, emphasizing individualization. The early planning left…

This document contains chapters 4 and 5 of the final report of the Project on Social Architecture in Education. Chapter 4 provides a brief overview of the activities of the project in order to sketch the context out of which the case studies, conclusions, and learning materials emerged. Chapter 5 discusses and evaluates six major strands of…