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Download full textBarrows, 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, 1922
In February, 1922, the United States Commissioner of Education, John J. Tigert, called the First National Conference on the Work-Study-Play, or Platoon. One result of this conference was that the superintendents who attended asked the United States Bureau of Education to serve as a clearing house of information in regard to the work-study-play…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Superintendents, Educational Change, Play
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
