A four-day academic week serves the needs of more students, conserves energy, and cuts costs by making more efficient use of faculty, staff, and campus facilities. (DC)

Computer technicians bring to school scheduling a certain naivete regarding the operation of schools. School administrators play a fundamental role of informing technicians about education scheduling needs. (Author)

This material demonstrates the usefulness of an accurate space utilization analysis drawing inference from utilization statistics. (Author)

A Department of Educational Management and Administration was set up in May, 1968, which has been arranging inservice study groups on various aspects of school administration. One of its particular concerns is timetabling, including the most efficient use of teaching time and space. An Advisory Service is maintained for those individual…

Describes a physical facilities information retrieval system that correlates new school construction with student enrollment. (MF)

Describes the Cambridge (Massachusetts) Public Schools' management of physical assets to generate income. Notes the need for board and superintendent commitment, outlines nine steps for developing plans, and considers 13 potential issues. Lists 21 types of assets and their estimated demand and annual income and potential uses, users, and problems.…

A model is presented for analyzing the cost benefits of a school reorganization in which ninth graders are moved to senior high schools and sixth graders to junior high schools. Data from a Maryland school district show the reorganization will save money through increased capacity utilization and economies of scale. (Author/RW)

The Standards for Industrial Arts Programs Project sought to determine what kinds of facilities were in existence, what facilities were being planned, and how existing facilities had been modified to accommodate students with special needs. (LRA)

A University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee building illustrates how an academic building can be ill-suited to its users due to uncompromising adherence to its formal conception. The building is out of scale with its neighbors and unsuccessful in fulfilling human needs, particularly those constituting the latent functions of the building. (MSE)

Presents a system, Program Sensitive Capacity, by which capacities of schools and classrooms can be calculated. Involves consideration of program characteristics, average class sizes, and scheduling efficiency. (MLF)

The conference reported in this document sought to do the following: (1) focus attention on the problem of underachieving minority students, and issue a call for action to improve their educational achievement; (2) promote dialogue on promising practices aimed at solving the problem; (3) foster collaboration on solutions among practitioners,…