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Show Education Boom Proves Boon to National Economy Need for New Today's Learning Methods Transforming Schoolhouses Facilities Spurs Action More Schools, Better Equipment, Making More Jobs American education is in the throes of revolution. The revolution is transforming transform-ing the things students learn in the schools and colleges and, more dramatically, the ways they are taught. And, the revolution is having hav-ing a major impact on the American economy. Education, already a major industry, in less than a decade will become the nation's largest. In the academic year ending last June, $34 billion was spent on formal education in the United States. By 1975, according accord-ing to conservative estimates, the bill will amount to $61 billion. In other words, unless there is a major war, education by 1975 will replace defense as the nation's single largest industry. in-dustry. What's Behind It And these predictions involve in-volve only spending on formal education the schools and colleges, both public and private. pri-vate. They do not include the vast sums spent on education under the war on poverty, or the education and training budgets of other government agencies, the military, and industry. in-dustry. What is behind the revolution revolu-tion and education's new prominence in the economy? Educational Facilities Laboratories, Lab-oratories, a subsidiary of the Ford Foundation, that concerns con-cerns itself with improving buildings and equipment for education, offers this analysis: There are more Americans than ever before and more of them are spending more years in the education system. Education Edu-cation is becoming a lifelong process. Scientific and technological advances mean that more knowledge must be imparted to students at all levels if they are to become productive citizens. citi-zens. But the supply of talented teachers is inadequate to meet the twin challenges of the enrollment en-rollment explosion and the knowledge explosion. Facing the problem, educators educa-tors have sought ways to make more effective use of a limited supply of good teachers and,! at the same time, more fullyj develop the potential of indi vidual students. The revolution in American education is transforming the schoolhouse. The new patterns of education, like team teaching, and the new technology of teaching, like educational television, demand de-mand a new kind of educational space. The traditional classroom, arranged in an egg-crate pattern of 30-pupil boxes, is giving way to spaces for large lectures, for seminars, and independent study. Rooms of all sizes are designed to accommodate the latest in audio-visual and electronic teaching and learning devices. And, because changes in educational patterns are expected to continue and accelerate, the walls within the schools can be taken down and rearranged easily and economically. In some cases, interior walls have disappeared, transforming transform-ing four or five classrooms into one open space for 100 to 150 pupils and their teacners. These new patterns in the design of schools and, for that matter, of colleges, have been stimulated in part by the efforts of Educational Facilities Laboratories (EFL). EFL was founded by the Ford Foundation in 1958 to help American schools and universities with their physical problemsthe prob-lemsthe design of buildings and equipment to meet growing grow-ing enrollments and changing educational patterns. Many of EFL's findings are available to educators, architects, archi-tects, school and college boards, and to citizens interested in their schools. A list of EFL's publications, all available free of charge, can be obtained by writing to Educational Facilities Laboratories, 477 Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10022. And a free loan of EFL's 28-minute color film, To Build A Schoolhouse, narrated by Chet Huntley, may be arranged by writing to EFL, Co Association Films, 347 Madison Avenue New York, N. Y. 10017. mmmm mmumi i'. m ijujh . u i. u J ' ' T"" j III T MPI H ONE ROOM SCHOOL HOUSE? WELL, NOT PRECISELY, though the above is a "wall-less" schoolhouse designed to accommodate the leurning areas to modern teaching techniques which aim at more personal attention per pupil and at permitting each to progress by subjects as differentiated from grades. The above an overall view of the Granada Elementary School servicing Belvedere Tiburon, ('ill. (see detail below). Photos from Educational Faci'ities Laboratories by Kondal Partridge. The results include new patterns pat-terns of instruction, such as team teaching, and new tools for learning, such as television, programed teaching machines, and even computers. The new patterns are aimed primarily at giving more youngsters exposure to the best teachers and at educational educa-tional arrangements that permit per-mit the individual pupil to proceed through the curriculum curricu-lum at his own best rate. Students As Individuals The new tools are expected to free teachers from the time-consuming time-consuming and repetitive chore of transmitting facts to students. Instead, they will have time to work with students stu-dents as individuals and in small groups, functioning as the catalytic agent a good teacher must be. And, the new tools will be used to handle the knowledge explosion. Human retrievers the librarians will be aided by computers, microfilm, and television in their efforts to make the multiplying storehouse store-house of knowledge available to the world's scholars. It all means that education dollars will be spent on much more than the traditional items teachers' salaries, books, pencils, and classroom construction. con-struction. Increasing amounts will be spent on sophisticated mechanical mechan-ical and electronic devices, many of them not yet invented, invent-ed, to aid in learning and in the retrieval of knowledge. Industry, aware of the educational edu-cational revolution, already is working on new products and systems to serve the new education. edu-cation. Giant corporations such as IBM and Xerox, are buying smaller, education-oriented education-oriented or publishing-oriented companies to aid their development de-velopment efforts. 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