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Perkins, Bradford – 2001
This book provides the essential information architects need to fast-start a school design process and shares what leading architects have learned about elementary and secondary school design. It provides critical information on the process, potential problems, design concerns, and recent trends in school design, along with complete coverage of…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Facilities Design, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). Programme on Educational Building. – 2002
The OECD Programme on Educational Building and the Spanish Ministry of Education organized an international seminar in Toledo, Spain, from February 22-25, 2000, devoted to the procedures for financing educational facilities. The participants came from a number of OECD countries and for the most part play an active role in the provision and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Decentralization, Educational Facilities, Educational Finance
Cole, Doris – 2003
This book contains photographs and descriptions of the Boston Public Schools, Massachusetts, explaining that the Boston Public Schools include about 129 buildings that were constructed in the late 19th century and throughout the 20th century and noting that the first and oldest public school in the United States was founded in Boston in 1635.…
Descriptors: Architecture, Building Design, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools
Hammond, Gerald S.; Schwandner, Stephen H., II – 1997
The forces of democratization of centralized governments and institutions and the pursuit of companies to deliver customer-defined quality in their goods and services requires better schools to achieve its goals. This book provides a plan for using a democratic and quality-driven process to build high-quality schools, i.e., applying private-sector…
Descriptors: Community Cooperation, Community Coordination, Educational Facilities Planning, Elementary Secondary Education
2001
This book represents the first installment in a series based on the Herbert Baumer seminars hosted at the Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State University. These publications will focus on a single work by a particular architect and on special topics in contemporary architecture. The book opens with an interview with Thom Mayne, principal…
Descriptors: Architects, Building Design, Building Innovation, Building Plans
Center for Education Policy, Applied Research, and Evaluation, 2008
"Education Indicators" are facts and statistics that help to describe a public education system. They are tools which are useful in examining and measuring the effectiveness of the system. Examples include information such as the amount of local funds raised to support local schools, per pupil expenditures, pupil-teacher ratios, and…
Descriptors: Expenditure per Student, Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement, Educational Indicators