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Download full textBarrows, Alice – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1923
In December, 1921, the Board of Education of Washington, North Carolina requested the United States Commissioner of Education make a survey of the school buildings of Washington, NC with a view to working out a building program for the schools of that city. The author of this bulletin was detailed by the commissioner to make the survey, which she…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Play, Construction Programs, School Buildings
Barrows, Alice – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1937
The study of "Functional Planning of Elementary School Buildings" is a cooperative piece of work carried to completion by the Office of Education with very generous assistance from the National Advisory Council on School Building Problems. The Office is under deep obligation to the National Advisory Council for the time and thought which the…
Descriptors: Architecture, Educational Facilities Design, School Buildings, Elementary Schools
Barrows, Alice – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1929
The topics discussed in this bulletin are those that are significant of new developments in regard to the school-building problem. For example, although elementary and high school buildings are of equal importance, considerable space is given to the evolution of the elementary school building of the city school systems because it represents a…
Descriptors: School Location, School Size, School Buildings, Lighting
Barrows, Alice – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1938
The present study of school building construction and school building needs was made at the request of school building experts from all parts of the country who urged the need of detailed data by cities as well as by counties and States, as to the types of schools for which buildings had been constructed during the past 3 years, the kinds of…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Population Trends, Sociocultural Patterns, School Construction
Barrows, Alice; Simonson, Lee – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1939
The present bulletin deals with the evolution of the school auditorium, and presents recommendations for the planning of the auditorium, with particular reference to the stage, so that the auditorium can be used as a theater, concert hall, for forums, for motion pictures, and for radio programs. The auditorium is one of the most important units in…
Descriptors: Educational History, Space Utilization, Educational Facilities, Music Facilities
Barrows, Alice – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1941
Because of the individual authority of each State for its own educational program, practices and policies differ widely among them in many respects. Yet in the midst of differences there are also common elements of development. The U. S. Office of Education, in presenting this series of monographs, has attempted to point out those common elements,…
Descriptors: Educational History, State Departments of Education, Agency Role, State Policy
