Near destruction of the city's school plant had a single merit: Londoners could rebuild from scratch. One result is England's highly regarded comprehensive secondary school system. (Author)

Latest ideas include a school with tunnels and slides, aviation training, an outdoor curriculum for campers, and a door-to-door PR campaign. (Author)

When teachers of Village South Elementary School, Centerville, Ohio, planned a program and a school to contain it, the result was open. (Editor/EA)

An experimental study compared 32 architectural design students' academic achievement as influenced by two different environmental variables (conventional learning space and personalized learning space) and two different instructional variables (conventional teaching and team teaching). Personalized learning space and team teaching had positive…

A recent national study of the influence of openness of school buildings on teaching practices and pupil outcomes has found that open area schools were associated with lower scores on basic skills tests. Several possible explanations are suggested based on the history of the open building innovation and observed school use patterns. (MSE)

An elementary school teacher and an architect taught six third graders some principles of designing ideal classrooms. These subjects' ability to observe and design environments was shown to be significantly greater than that of students in an uninstructed control group. (Author/WB)

In Avon (Indiana), a community lacking public buildings, a middle school was built with community uses in mind. The swimming pool, gymnasium, and commons area can be blocked off for community use by using floor-to-ceiling gates. The school's heating, ventilating, and air conditioning systems are also energy-efficient. (Author/MLF)

The traditional division of the school into discrete classrooms does not fill today's diverse student and faculty needs. The alternative might be a school divided into 40 individual carrels, 15 project rooms, 5 offices, 2 seminar rooms, and 1 multipurpose room. (Author/JM)

Many features of our secondary schools are static, self-destructive, and depersonalizing. Rather than organizing the middle school along secondary school lines, using the elementary school model, with some obvious modifications, provides a more humanistic approach. (Author/SJL)

Data collected in both classroom and open design schools suggest that teacher-pupil interactions in classrooms are not as routine as is often assumed, and that open plan schools may not provide for dynamic and fruitful teacher-teacher interaction to the extent that was earlier thought to be the case. (Author/NQ)

Campus design is discussed as a metaphor for an educational world view. Present spatial organization of the average campus works against the best interests and efforts of the academic community. Implications for spatial reorganization are detailed. (Article originally published in 1971.) (AF)

Author finds that in one authority comprehensives can hold their own with selective schools on performance in examinations. (Editor/RK)

Describes a Kansas City elementary school's successful energy conservation via its environmental design that includes the use of ground source heat pumps and computer energy management systems. Also discusses how this design concept contributes to the educational experience of the school's students. (GR)