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Following is an excerpt of the Graduate School of Education's report on the secondary schools of Pittsburgh. This section of the report deals with the Ed School's concept of "educational centers...
...Graduate School of Education undertook a study of Pittsburgh's secondary schools in September 1965 at the request of the city's Board of Education. The Board was about to embark on a new secondary school building program (the last high school in the city was constructed in 1927) and wanted recommendations about the nature and locations of the new buildings. One of the major criteria, the Board said, should be the elimination of de facto segregation...
...carry out the secondary educational program broadly outlined in the previous section, construction of each of Pittsburgh's secondary school buildings should be planned so as to fulfill at least four basic needs: sufficient space to bring together the necessary equipment and personnel to offer a full range of courses in science and technology, the arts, language and mathematics, social studies, and physical educaiton; efficient physical relationships between the spaces and equipment of related courses, such as science laboratories and shops for technology; provision of a means of maintaining the individual student's sense of identity and importance despite...
...Pittsburgh's present high schools cannot fulfill these basic requirements. The secondary plant is crowded, racially segregated, old, and lacking in facilities and sites adequate for the educational program of grades 9-12. The enrollment of Pittsburgh's thirteen regular high schools was 23,336 as of March 30, 1966. The total capacity of these buildings as calculated by the Harvard staff is 19,881. The crowding is most acute in Allderdice, Langley, South Hills, Perry, Gladstone, and Westinghouse, where there are enrollments of 3082, 1910, 2218, 1353, 1291, and 2642, respectively, in buildings rated by the Harvard staff...
Allderdice, constructed in 1927, is the newest of Pittsburgh's high schools. Allegheny and Fifth Avenue, the two oldest, were both constructed before 1900. The average high school age is fifty-four years. The facilities within the schools are generally outdated for a contemporary education program for grades 9-12. And in many cases, the sites are not adequate for purposes of physical education at this age level...