Industry News
USGBC Center for Green Schools Recognizes Best Green Schools
The U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) Center for Green Schools, working in conjunction with its founding sponsor, United Technologies Corp., released its inaugural Best of Green Schools list in December. The list recognizes school administrators and government leaders for their efforts to create sustainable learning environments.
Recipient schools and regions from across the nation were honored for a variety of sustainable, cost-cutting measures, including energy conservation, record numbers of LEED-certified buildings, and collaborative platforms and policies to green U.S. school infrastructures. The commitments of the award winners to measurable and innovative sustainable building goals serve as models for schools and campuses everywhere. Read More.
Study Finds Correlation Between School Construction and Student Achievement
Investments in school construction pay off in the form of higher reading scores, according to a new study. In November, Yale University’s Christopher Neilson and Seth Zimmerman published an IZA Discussion Paper titled “The Effect of School Construction on Test Scores, School Enrollment, and Home Prices.” The paper was published by the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, a virtual international research center.
Research conducted by Neilson and Zimmerman showed new evidence regarding the effect of school construction projects on home prices, academic achievement, and public school enrollment. The authors found that after staggered implementation of a comprehensive school construction project in a poor urban district, $10,000 of per-student investment in school construction raised reading scores for elementary and middle school students by 0.027 standard deviations after six years. The authors also found that school construction raised home prices and public school enrollment in zoned neighborhoods. Read More.
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