This is an aside titled 'Designing Safe and Friendly Schools' dated 5/19/08
Some of the worst buildings in the world are the same ones that small children attend five days a week. Debate over education center architecture gained some momentum following the rash of school shootings, (albeit, some very bad suggestions come from it, like video surveillance and schools without windows.) According to a 2003 paper, a school’s physical condition is statistically related to students’ academic achievement. Not everyplace can look like Kindergarten Heddernheim, but, at the very least students deserve structures that won’t flatten in an earthquake. A reported 6,898 schoolrooms collapsed last week in China, oftentimes in the middle of still standing buildings. I wonder if the tragedy will renew interest in these questions in our country.
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