High school attendance rates are affected by the size of the school, the percentage of required courses offered as phase electives, and the population density of the community. (IRT)

Shows how community education influences school building design concepts. (Author/DW)

Schools will adopt the changes dictated by new services to be rendered, an improved psychology of learning, changing economics and politics, advancing technology, and the realization that schools are in the public domain and that their services and places are held in common to help all people increase the common wealth. (Author/DW)

Educational philosophy, land economics, cost benefit, environmental strategy, and decentralization reinforce the evolution of the small school as the educational shape of today. (Author/DW)

The Learning Center at Old Sturbridge Village is designed to develop a sense of early American lifeways and stimulate creative behavior. (Author)

Important conceptual and practical problems are involved in specifying the conditions under which individuals or groups are likely to experience a sense of crowding. An ecological/environmental perspective can help educators determine humane space utilization. (Author/DW)

Presents eleven practical ideas for flexible, useful sports facilities. (DW)

Openness and flexibility are the common denominators in these notes on the changing environment for the school's youngest clients. (Author)

Vandalism may be reduced and wholesome physical and emotional growth enhanced through creatively designed and properly supervised recreational facilities. International examples are cited. (DW)

The Roberson Center for the Arts and Sciences in Binghamton, New York, brings art, music, drama, and science to public school children. (DW)

Handicapped children learn better when integrated into a regular classroom via specially designed learning centers that provide environmental alternatives and a gradual adjustment to the normal classroom setting. (Author/DW)

School facilities can be restructured for changing educational programs at minimal cost. (DW)

Educational spaces should change with the program and include differentiation of scale, a sense of turf, a focal point, differentiation of mood, directionality, furnishings, and equipment. (Author/DW)

Harmony among educational philosophy, organizational structure, and physical design is achieved through teacher-student-parent-administration cooperative planning and decisionmaking. (Author/DW)