Designing for Millennial Students
Learning takes on a whole new meaning for administrators and faculty teaching the current generation of students.
These recent high school graduates — known as the Millennials or Echo Boomers — have always used a calculator to solve math problems, have grown up with unparalleled access to information through the Internet and cannot fathom life without a cell phone and text messaging.
Designing for Millennial Students Learning takes on a whole new meaning for administrators and faculty teaching the current generation of students. These recent high school graduates 鈥� known as the…
Independent Schools Look to Unique Buildings to Lure Students Independent schools compete politely but fiercely for the best students. In those competitions, key themes include academic and athletic excellence and…
NEW ORLEANS — A $1.6 billion master plan to rebuild schools here is coming to fruition with the fall opening of Langston Hughes Elementary School.
The 96,000-square-foot facility is the first school to open in New Orleans since 2003 and is the first public building to open since Hurricane Katrina and subsequent flooding caused widespread damage in 2005, according to officials.
Several schools planned under the 15-year master plan for the Recovery School District and Orleans Parish School Board are scheduled to open in coming months.
ATLANTA 鈥� The Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Education recently released new guidelines to plan for and respond to the upcoming flu season. The guidelines…
NEW YORK 鈥� Officials broke ground on the $83 million New Settlement Community Campus, a pre-K-through-12th-grade public school in the Bronx with a nonprofit community center. The four-story, 172,000-square-foot school…
WARRENVILLE, Ill. 鈥� Hubble Middle School, the first LEED for Schools middle school campus registered in Illinois, opened its doors for the first time for fall classes. The $37 million…
CARBONDALE, Ill. 鈥� An $83 million expansion and renovation that will dramatically change athletic facilities at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale is expected to be completed by 2010. The centerpieces of the…
HowardOnly a fraction of the 40 billion square feet of roofing annually installed in the United States involves retrofit projects with sloped metal systems. However, replacement and repair continue to…
