There was a particular kind of confidence in the science classroom of the 1960s. Space was suddenly urgent, politically charged, and genuinely thrilling. Teachers stood at the chalkboard explaining ...

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

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 ...

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 ...