PROBE:
Designing School Facilities for Learning
Author: NEKIA
Product ID: SCH-16 Price: Online only
• Published: 1997 • 60 pages
PROBE, published by National Education Knowledge Industry Association (NEKIA) Communications, targets education policymakers and others on the forefront of education policy. Probe introduces new ideas about facilities planning, along with articles on financing, school construction and cultivating community dialog about school infrastructure. Its topics are deliberately chosen to highlight new practices and research findings that require policy attention or, where the research base itself is too weak to inform policy adequately, to stimulate further inquiry.
The Spring 1997 edition of PROBE addresses the topic of Designing School Facilities for Learning. It covers such school design issues as:
- Our Schools are Symbols of What We Value: An introduction by Dena G. Stoner, President of NEKIA Communications
- The Cruel Conditions of Our Nations Schools: Years of neglect have raised the cost of school repair to $112 billion over the next three years. How did it happen?
- PROBE Roundtable: PROBE brings together experts on learning and school facilities to discuss what we know about school facilities and what we still need to know to help policymakers and community leaders manage facilities' needs in their schools.
- Design & Consensus: An innovative planning process is helping communities realize the "stuff" of their education fantasies.
- School Facilities Fit for Reform: Translating research on school reform into workable plans for school facilities is a relatively new endeavor, but already some innovative architects and educators are leaving their mark.
- School Sense: Color, lighting, and other elements combine to make up the atmosphere in a school. But now researchers are finding that these same elements are also important to student achievement.
- The Question that Won't Go Away: Communities and states, desperate for infrastructure funding, are seeking alternatives to voter-approved bond issues. PROBE looks at ways to take advantage of new financial instruments and global financial markets to finance school infrastructure.
- Managing in the States: Poor schoolhouse conditions are being compounded by surging student enrollments, leaving states and school districts to find creative solutions to the problem or face the courts.
- Also included, A Role for the Federal Government in School Infrastructure? A short essay by Neil Strawser
