The overall campus development and distribution of the required facilities are discussed in this study, which was prompted by the inadequacy of several existing facilities and an unorganized campus layout. An analysis is developed of--(1) the educational program, (2) the relationship of the campus to the city and the neighborhood, (3) the…

The California legislature's Joint Legislative Audit Committee has issued a report concerning the Belmont Learning Complex (BLC) and the Los Angeles Unified School District's (LAUSD's) propensity for engaging in a series of school construction projects on contaminated land. The analysis suggests that the LAUSD was made aware of the BLC site's…

There are good reasons for educational institutions to coexist on the same site or even in the same building with governmental, residential, or commercial functions. Notwithstanding, there are roadblocks such as bureaucratic inertia and laws governing financing of public buildings. Profile of one institution that tried to share its facilities with…

School remodeling decisions should be based on a careful analysis of the site, building, educational program, and estimated cost. (Author/MLF)

South Lawrence East School, a K-8 facility in Lawrence (Massachusetts), illustrates how planners worked with the district to create an environment for learning and community involvement. The layout and circulation provide easy access to the community wing, which houses the auditorium, gymnasium, and activity room, without opening the rest of the…

The knowledge visually-impaired people have of the space around them is a subject of great interest to the scientific community. This article describes a school programme and the effect it had on the environmental knowledge of the school where it was carried out. A group of sighted students chose as a project to construct, with the author's help,…

Positing that place has a pedagogy that can be harnessed for educative means and ends or left to chance and that partnering place and its pedagogy with teaching magnifies the influence of place and teaching, I conceptualize "metissage" as place of education. Because few scholars in education have written about metissage and even fewer have…

This booklet describes for elementary students the many contributions of people, traveling many places, over many years to bring the tomato to Philadelphia. The booklet includes the following: (1) "Introduction to the Tomato"; (2) "Where Does the Tomato Come From?"; (3) "The Spanish Tomato"; (4) "The Philadelphia…

A computer program was developed with the potential to: demonstrate the power and uses of computers to students of environmental interpretation; show the use of computers for modeling in the realm of environmental interpretation; and show the use of computers as learning tools for students of environmental interpretation. A computer simulation…

The site variability issue for Direct Instruction Follow Through sites is examined from a variety of perspectives--meta-analysis of the Abt Associates' data, norm-referenced comparisons, and a longitudinal look at stability of effects. Much of the seemingly unexplained variability found in both the Abt report and the reports by M. Kennedy and E.…

This project designed for stimulating student interest in their local neighborhood involves actual student contact with and research on the neighborhood business community. (Author/ND)

This handbook was prepared for communities selected as potential sites for hazardous waste facilities, identifying issues which need to be addressed and suggesting specific and positive steps that communities can take to shape proposals to meet their concerns. Following an introduction, specific areas addressed include: community controls,…

Eugene (OR) School District 4J is experiencing declining enrollments on a district-wide basis, but these declines have not been evenly distributed throughout the district. Schools in the Central city and older neighborhoods are experiencing declines, while schools in newer neighborhoods at the periphery are generally more crowded. At some future…

One of 33 self-paced instructional modules for training industry services leaders to provide guidance in the performance of manpower services by public agencies to new and expanding private industry, this module contains three sequential learning activities on adapting the training site to training needs. The first learning activity is designed to…

A format considering factors to be studied in a proposed obsolescence formula. Items listed under the physical characteristics category are intended to be subjected to a technical evaluation under which the condition and adequacy of the building and building system may be subsequently measured as a yardstick of the building's present and future…