The first phase of Penn Valley Community College at Kansas City, Missouri, reflects the master plan directives -- provide harmony with the environment and an atmosphere conducive to student faculty interaction. (Author/MF)

The Anaheim Union High School District in California purchased a retail-selling market, with three acres under one roof, and converted it into a high school and district administrative headquarters. (Author/MF)

Four drafting teachers give their opinions on how to teach metric measurement and conversion and other matters. They are Jeffry T. Lufting, James E. Kelso, L. Dayle Yeager, and Michael B. Atkins. Computer graphics, modular structures, communicative drafting, and microfilm reproduction are also discussed. (MS)

The social position of integrated and segregated educable mentally retarded (EMR) elementary level children in a traditional school building was compared to the social position of a similar group of EMR children in a no-interior-wall school. (Author/MC)

Sources of noises affecting schools and their hindrance of learning are presented. Noise levels for different activities are tabled and possible methods for controlling such noises are suggested. Internal to the school, shop and music levels are the most severe. More care in site selection and design considerations are recommended. (LS)

The Wisconsin Audiovisual Association recognized that some information regarding building requirements for media needed to be available to educators and architects involved in building planning. The association appointed a committee to prepare a simple brochure relating to media considerations for school facilities. (Author)

Students create learning materials and renovate classrooms. (MF)

Presents the preliminary findings of a study of two schools conducted to determine what can and should be done to reduce the schools' energy consumption without affecting their operation. The schools under study are a 40,033 square foot, non-air conditioned elementary school and a 270,085 square foot, partly air conditioned high school. The study…

Claims that school maintenance budgets should be organized into no more than three categories: buildings; equipment repair and replacement; and grounds and outdoor facilities. Several simple budgeting formulas are provided. (WM)

Asserts that school buildings must return to the basics of serving the people inside them rather than acting as monuments to their architects. Proposes some general principles for making school environments more humane, such as provision for spatial variation, spatial order and human scale. (Author/WM)

Map and description of 40-acre defensive driving range being built for secondary school driver education programs in the Burke County Public Schools of North Carolina. Features include a beginner course, streets, driveways, expressway, gravel road, a driver education building, and an emergency skid area. (Author/DN)

Describes how a board, community officials, and developers work closely together to plan for new schools in the rapidly growing suburb of Schaumburg Township, Illinois. (JF)

Open classrooms may provide some answers to needed reforms in today's schools. (DS)