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April 6, 2006

Providence educators try hand at designing future

PROVIDENCE -- What should an urban high school look like in the 21st century? How will technology change the way students are taught? Should we think about schools as community hubs that stay open long after the final bell?

These were a few of the challenging questions that more than 100 Providence teachers and administrators tackled today during a forum run by DeJong, an educational planning company hired to help the city decide what to do with its aging school buildings.

Armed with felt pens and drawing paper, teachers sketched out the dream school of the future: airy, light-filled spaces with atriums, student lounges and wireless classrooms. The goal is to provide the architects with plenty of raw information from which they can design the schools of the future.

More to come in tomorrow's Journal and on projo.com ...

-- Journal education writer Linda Borg

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