The president of Wesley College, Delaware, offers management guidelines for coping in a period of severe financial stress which include involve the board, examine past audit reports, talk to personnel, install an energy control system, and examine business office computer sheets and ledger books. (MLF)

A college teacher discusses how in his U.S. history survey course he uses the buildings in Philadelphia to illuminate the principal forces of national history. For example, colonial buildings and street plans can help students understand the bourgeois character of early Philadelphia and of other American cities. (RM)

The concept of environmental design cybernetics is explained, and its use by special educators and architects in creating learning environments is discussed. A proposed habitability framework is defined, and its applications to buildings and building occupants/users are offered. Research on architectural design applied to special education…

Administrators are offered a brief guide to facilities planning procedures to ensure disabled children's access to all programs. Types of information needed, whom to include in the planning process, and how to develop an ongoing monitoring and evaluation plan are outlined. (MJL)

The Brooklyn Center branch of New York's Long Island University has an impact on the entire downtown of Brooklyn. The library serves the needs of the poor adjacent communities, of businesses in the downtown area, and of five nearby colleges. (Author/MLF)

The content of public education policy will increasingly be concerned with the organization and operation of schools. A plan that might meet the needs of this area is school-site management, which involves a shift of decision-making responsibility from the school district to the school site. (Author/IRT)

A study of Hawaii's school construction program analyzed four major processes: program planning, facilities design, construction, and repair and maintenance. (MLF)

The purpose of "Facilities Performance Indicators" is to provide a representative set of statistics about facilities in educational institutions. The second iteration of the web-based Facilities Core Data Survey was posted and available to facilities professionals at more than 3,000 institutions in the Fall of 2005. The website offered a printed…

This report was based on the responses of more than 1,000 school employees to a survey on the physical environment at their schools. Many of the responses revealed some startling building conditions, from students who have to wear coats and gloves in class to rats and mice entering classrooms through windows and cracks in walls. The report…

This paper examines how middle school students developed understanding of transformational geometry through design activities in Escher's World, a computationally rich design experiment explicitly modeled on an architectural design studio. Escher's World was based on the theory of pedagogical praxis (Shaffer, 2004a), which suggests that preserving…

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) developed the Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools (IAQ TfS) Program to help schools prevent, identify, and resolve their IAQ problems. This publication describes the program and its advantages, explaining that through simple, low-cost measures, schools can: reduce IAQ-related health risks and…

This publication contains brief articles concerned with modular school structures. Many articles offer examples of such structures at actual schools. The articles in this issue are: (1) "Modular Classroom Additions"; (2) "Heywood Elementary School Project"; (3) "King County Directors Association (KCDA) Signs Contract for Modular Classrooms"; (4)…

This publication contains brief articles concerned with modular school structures. Many articles offer examples of such structures at actual schools. The articles in this issue are: (1) "Hightstown High School"; (2) "St. Pius X Parish, Vancouver BC"; (3) "Forrest Street Elementary School"; (4) "Kingman Academy of…

This publication contains brief articles concerned with modular school structures. The articles offer examples of such structures at actual schools. The articles in this issue are: (1) "Elementary K-8 Modular Courtyard"; (2) "School District #33, Chilliwack, BC"; (3) "New Elementary School for Briarwood, NY"; (4) "Addition to Queens Intermediate…

This publication contains brief articles concerned with modular school structures. Some articles offer examples of such structures at actual schools. The articles in this issue are: (1) "An Architect's Perspective: Convincing a Skeptic" (Robert M. Iamello); (2) "66 Portables for San Mateo High" (Steven Williams); (3) "Case Study: Charter Schools"…