Project description, design philosophy, and sketches of site and floor plans are provided for six educational facilities presently, or soon to be, under construction in the states of California, Georgia, Illinois, New York, Texas, and Oklahoma. (MLF

The issue of whether the First Amendments right to freedom of speech applies to commercial vendors on campuses as it does to nonprofit solicitation is addressed and guidelines provided. Banning commercial solicitation from residence halls, but allowing it on a limited basis in campus centers is recommended. (Author/ABB)

Describes a new software system by which a single microcomputer can be used for energy management, security, smoke and fire detection, and word processing simultaneously. (TE)

Photographs and descriptions of four award-winning projects selected at the Association of School Business Officials' annual meeting: (1) Stafford Community Educational Complex (Texas), (2) Father Flanagan Alternative High School (Nebraska), (3) Davis Middle School (Wyoming), and (4) Lake Washington Vocational Technical Institute (Washington).…

First constructed in Alberta in 1974, expandable-contractible core schools contain a permanent structure to which a number of relocatable classrooms may be attached. The facilities can also serve as community centers. Almost 40 percent of the elementary school space constructed in the past seven years is relocatable. (MLF)

Describes a study that sought to ascertain whether affective work competencies are perceived differently by supervisors and workers from selected industries as measured by a Revised Affective Work Competencies Inventory (RAWCI). Discusses implications for vocational-industrial educators. (NRJ)

A Connecticut district's stringent asbestos removal and testing program is described, which applies a modified National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health-Occupational Safety and Health Administration (NIOSH-OSHA) test as a standard of acceptable removal. (MJL)

The school, designed in a storefront on the main street of the town it would serve, blends educational philosophy with community involvement and difficult site problems. (Author/MLF)

A glass and steel space frame links the Wilson Commons triangular brick towers that house about 80 percent of the student activity areas. (Author/MLF)

"Working Paper 1" is the first publication of the Center for Advanced Research in Urban and Environmental Affairs of Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture and Planning. It sets out the results of a year-long study made by the Center of the Christopher Street Federal Archive Building, an important landmark of New York's…

This fact sheet provides a list of "lessons learned" to assist schools in better preparing for a crisis event. The list was compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Department of Education specifically to assist schools in preparing for a terrorist attack. The lessons can help schools better identify appropriate…

This guide addresses school vandalism and break-ins, describing the problem and reviewing the risk factors. It also discusses the associated problems of school burglaries and arson. The guide then identifies a series of questions to help analyze each local problem. Finally, it reviews responses to the problem, and what is known about them from…

This presentation on educational facilities design emphasizes the overarching strategy of observing the activities of learning that take place in and out of the classroom setting, and the importance of taking a fresh look at what children do in school so that new ways can be found of approaching school design. The presentation addresses these…

This article asserts that it is critical to understand the connections between human ecology and building ecology to create humane environments that show inspiration and creativity and that also serve diverse needs. It calls for efforts to: (1) construct an environmental education approach that fuses the three ecologies (natural, human, and…

This paper asserts that instead of assuming that the future of learning has to take place in buildings we happen to have now, districts can let innovations in instruction and learning drive how they provide, design, and use school buildings. With this goal in mind, the paper looks at five trends in education and what they imply about the kinds of…