Describes one district's successful experience with the shift to an open plan school. (WM)

Renovation of the 47-year-old Merion Elementary school in suburban Philadelphia cost less than building a new school and resulted in a contemporary building with only two walled-in general classrooms, the rest being space without walls. (Author/MF)

A 10-point summary of how, with little effort, any school system can create an open (plan) school that will inevitably turn into a disaster. (Author)

Open campus can be successfully implemented, says a principal who has lived with it for five years. He even claims that it can make students more responsible. (Editor)

Describes an intensive workshop in open education and identifies basic dimensions of a humanizing in-service model. (DS)

Provides verbal and diagramatic evidence that opening up traditional classroom space to provide a more fluid atmosphere and greater team teaching possibilities need not be a costly, highly complicated business. (Author)

Open education means opening up to the possibilities of the many resources available in the talents and abilities of parents and others in the community. (Author)

Three studies conducted by the Environment for Teaching Program of the Stanford Center for Research and Development in Teaching are reported. (BB)

Describes the Pompositticut Elementary School. (JF)

When openness becomes necessary, there is a way to tame its rampant acoustics. (Author)

Provides pictures and descriptions of physical adaptations of open education by five American schools. (JH)

Provides pictures, selected construction statistics, and a blueprint. (JH)

Undifferentiated space carries the open space concept one step further, but as with open space, it is furniture that defines the instructional areas. (Author)