Asserting that successfully managing a school environment is a necessary and essential educational investment, this paper details common problems with school environments and how to address them. These include environmental awareness training, moisture and water management, effective ventilation, mold removal, and cleaning and restoration…

This report explains that there is growing evidence of a correlation between the adequacy of a school facility and student behavior and performance. In general, students attending school in newer, betterfacilities score 5 to 17 points higher on standardized tests than those attending in substandard buildings. School facility factors such as…

Consideration is given to the importance of including ecological awareness in the education of young Americans. (FF)

The solution for future ecological problems may be in how we view uninterrupted growth in relation to its hazards on natural resources, global life support systems and the human psychosphere. Attempts should be made to bring about fundamental changes in patterns of economic and technology which emphasize humanism and harmony with ecological…

Over a four-year period, different sized classes were asked to rate the physical environment in a college classroom. Class size was found to be related to the proportion of complaints, satisfaction with ventilation, and room size for both students and faculty. It is necessary to develop theories of people-in-environments rather than of people and…

If man is to understand the transformation of the ingredients of his environment into the quality of his existence, a greater spatial awareness may be a crucial aspect. (Author)

Since man has learned that most present day problems are interrelated, we need technology and its computers to solve them. (AF)

Looks at the environment and finds past man-made endeavors insufficient to produce better surroundings for individuals to learn, work, and play. Discusses exceptions that prove man can, in cooperation with the natural environment, design and build a better total living environment. (Author)

An explanation of the relationship between the environment and our spiritual conceptualizing activity. (Author/RY)

Educational institutions must educate their students to be prepared to face and cope with the many changes that are daily occuring in their world. With the benefit of such an education, they will be able to influence the course of these changes. (CK)

Provisions for the mentally disabled have to be adapted closely to their needs but at the same time be part of the normal living pattern. (Author)

Part of a series of articles entitled "Environment and the Child.

Briefly discusses and evaluates new developments in research which integrate environmental psychology and developmental psychology. (Author/SS)

This paper looks at the physical environment in Russell's life and examines nature themes recurring in his writings. Apparently, Russell took great pleasure from certain elements of the environment; he also sought emotional stimulation from the physical environment to balance the strains of undertaking his logical work. (DS)