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Scientists and educators are searching for ways to improve air quality in the nation’s often dilapidated school buildings.
Every single classroom, library and staff room in every Queensland public school is now air conditioned, according to the State Government.
Modern classrooms are set up in very different ways to the rows of single desks. Does this modern furniture benefit learning?
As students prepare to return to school in NSW from Monday, the state government has been auditing ventilation in schools. But some parents believe more can be done to improve airflow in classrooms.
As children return to face-to-face learning, schools will need to adopt multiple strategies to overcome their longstanding problem of overcrowding.
Students who once shopped at a downtown mall are now attending high school in the former department store.
Education Minister James Merlino says students have every right to use local parks during school hours after aggrieved Albert Park residents complained a local high school was “taking over” public space.
New research from Western Sydney University has revealed common surfaces used in schoolyards, such as unshaded asphalt and artificial grass, record surface temperatures of more than 60C during days of extreme heat.
A simple yet elegant solution grounded in science.
A century ago, children in New York City attended classes during a pandemic. It seemed to work.
An elementary teacher who has been using flexible seating for over a decade responds to the concerns he hears most frequently from other teachers.
The answer is more complicated than you might think.
Victoria needs as many as 200 new schools in the coming decade; University of Melbourne research is helping inform their design, to meet modern education needs.
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To keep the Rajkumari Ratnavati Girl's school cool in the heat of the Thar desert, New York architect Diana Kellogg incorporated a range of traditional and natural cooling methods.
The NSW and Victorian government say they’re providing schools with adequate options for ventilation, including air filters. But schools can’t take proper action without monitoring air quality.
Alternate workspaces for neurodiverse school students are being hailed a success, months after opening.
Moving classrooms outside is not a new idea. It’s been done in past disease outbreaks such as tuberculosis and the Spanish flu.
With evidence showing the COVID virus is airborne, it’s no coincidence many outbreaks in schools have occurred in winter – when windows are closed.
The new study, published last week in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, suggests public schools may be able to reopen safely for in-person instruction as long as children maintain three feet of distance between them, and with other mitigation measures maintained, such as wearing masks.
Almost 40 schools have partnered with the University of Melbourne in a radical project that aims to expand assessment metrics beyond NAPLAN scores and ATAR rankings.
More than a century after open-air schools were used to combat tuberculosis, educators are touting outdoor classes as a way to avoid the spread of the coronavirus among America's children.
Before the election, the airconditioning approval process took three months. Now, schools are waiting 15 months.
More than 1300 schools have put their hands up for airconditioning, but only 27 have received it.
Schools will wait up to five years for their air conditioning, but P&Cs have been urged not to get impatient and install it themselves.
The school, based on a model used in Bali, is being designed by the engineers behind U2's world tour stage.
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