Forget the beige hallways and the simple squeak of chalk; the 1960s classroom was a high-stakes social laboratory. Based on historical U.S. Census Bureau data, in October 1960, approximately 42.7 ...

Schools in the 1960s and 1970s had a completely different atmosphere from the classrooms students know today. Long before computers and smart boards became a part of everyday education, school life ...

A truck towing what appeared to be a pair of house trailers pulled up to Parker Elementary School on Jan. 15, 1962. The aluminum structures, ordered by the Chicago Board of Education and built by ...

The technology of the future was going to provide all kinds of new possibilities for the classroom of tomorrow — including eliminating the classroom entirely ...

Fond du Lac School District's oldest standing schools include Waters, Pier, Evans and Rosenow elementary schools — all built ...