Guidelines to help decision on whether to modernize or replace a school building. (MF)

Preliminary evaluations of learning that takes place in such found spaces as a converted garment factory, a fallout shelter, a milking machine factory, and a hotel provide evidence that, while children may not learn better, their reactions to these places is positive. The results are low rates of vandalism, high attendance, parent involvement, and…

Provides verbal and diagramatic evidence that opening up traditional classroom space to provide a more fluid atmosphere and greater team teaching possibilities need not be a costly, highly complicated business. (Author)

Tells how one elementary principal recycled'' four self-contained classrooms into a one-pod, open plan space for 100 first graders. (Author)

Ben Graves, director of the New Life for Old Schools study in the 1960s, takes a look at contemporary currents in school rehabilitation. (Author)

The new diversity of approaches to educational facility planning include combined community centers and schools; remodeling of four to six classrooms at a time as open pods, permitting alternative approaches to education within what started as a traditional building; career education facilities; recreational facilities; and special facilities.…