This study is the latest addition to a series of bulletins on education in foreign countries published by the U.S. Office of Education. The series is intended to fill multiple and increasing needs, both within and outside the Government; specifically, to provide assistance to registrars and admissions officers in their placement of foreign…

This document contains issues of "The Educational Record of the Province of Quebec" from January 1898 through December 1898. Among the topics covered in this volume are: aim of a true teacher, child study, circular to superior schools, elementary course of study, model and academy course of study, convention of Protestant teachers, Latin…

Gives ideas on how to incorporate a teacher professional center, a learning resources center, and an early education center into existing school facilities. (Author/DN)

Describes a center for the professional growth and development of the Vancouver, B.C., school system teaching and administrative staff. The center was created out of an abandoned school annex. (Author/DN)

Resource optimization in building design is based on the total system over its expected useful life. Alternative environmental systems can be evaluated in terms of resource costs and goal effectiveness. (Author/MF)

Summarizes three articles on energy conservation in the schools and presents the recommendations from those articles to educational planners. See EA 504 047, EA 504 048, and EA 504 050. (DN)

A comprehensive career education program which uses varieties of audiovisual aids for aurally handicapped students, 4 through 21 years of age, at the Marie H. Katzenbach School for the Deaf is described. (MC)

As the birthrate plunges, a resourceful building team finds school construction activity shifting to conversions, renovations, and the design of new schools called human resource centers. Describes programs in Thomas Jefferson Junior High School in Arlington, Virginia; the Whitman Center in Pontiac, Michigan; and the John F. Kennedy School and…

Describes an indoor exercise and recreational facility designed for first, second, and third graders in a remodeled ballroom-catering hall annex to an overcrowded elementary school in the Bronx. The minigym has been designed around the philosophy that a physical environment should entice children to be physically active. (Author/DN)

Building on air rights is not just a matter of putting one building on top of another to save money; two New York architects discuss their experiences and opinions. (Author)

An interview with the president of a construction management firm reveals how time and money can be saved through value engineering, scheduling, and cost control. (Author)

Discusses the reasons why conventional classroom facilities won't work for continuing education. Illustrates how one continuing education center was designed and built and suggests how flexibility can be built into a facility without the use of movable partitions. (DN)

The Louisville Board of Education recently renovated two downtown commercial buildings for a surprisingly small sum of money. (Author)

Case study of one school that was originally a milking machine factory and another of a vocational training center that was originally a post office. (Author)