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Can the use of wood in school construction create healthier, safer, more productive learning environments? In Japan, there's an ongoing effort by...
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One of the more compelling arguments for charter schools is their theoretical ability to streamline decision making. Eliminate all those layers of...
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Renovations to Seattle's historic Garfield High School focused mainly on restoring the 85-year-old building's faded beauty and creating a more usable...
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In 1995, the city of New Haven, Conn., launched a program to build five new schools and renovate and upgrade seven others. At the time, city...
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At 69 square miles, Vineland is New Jersey's largest city, at least in geographic area, and it has a rich history. It was established in 1861 as a...
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Imagine this scenario: You're planning a $32.9 million project involving 112,000 sf of new construction and renovation work, and your job site is an...
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High Tech High International, reconstructed inside a 1952 Navy metal foundry training facility, incorporates the very latest in teaching technology...
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Over a five-day stretch last December, students at the Carroll School in Lincoln, Mass., witnessed the installation of a modular classroom building...
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Worcester, Mass., is the birthplace of vocational education, beginning with the pioneering efforts of Milton P. Higgins, who opened the Worcester...
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Nestled deep in the Napa Valley, the city of American Canyon is one of a number of new communities in Northern California that have experienced...
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Faced with overcrowded schools and ever-shrinking capital budgets, more and more school districts are turning to the existing building stock for...
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Kingswood School is perhaps the best example of Eliel Saarinen's work in North America. Designed in 1930 by the Finnish-born architect, the building...
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Shouldn’t major financial investments in new schools benefit both the students and the greater community? Conventional wisdom says yes, of course....
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Forty-five percent of the country's elementary, middle, and high schools were built between 1950 and 1969 and will soon reach the end of their...
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In planning the Burr Elementary School in Fairfield, Conn., the school's building committee heeded the words of William Wordsworth: Come forth into...
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The story of the Trenton Daylight/Twilight High School is one of renewal and rebirth—both of the classic buildings that symbolize the city's past and...
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America needs more schools. Forty-five percent of the nation's elementary, middle, and high schools were built between 1950 and 1969, according...
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Lincoln High School in Tacoma, Wash., was built in 1913 and spent nearly a century morphing into a patchwork of outdated and confusing additions. A...
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At 121 years, Hawthorne School is the oldest elementary school building in the Elmhurst, Ill., school district and a source of pride for the...