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Project Title:
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Review and Assessment of the Health and Productivity Benefits of Green Schools
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PIN:
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BICE-J-04-04-A
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Major Unit:
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences
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Sub Unit:
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Board Infrastructure & the Constructed Environment
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RSO:
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Stanley, Lynda
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Project Scope
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The National Research Council (NRC), through the Board on Infrastructure and
the Constructed Environment (BICE), will review, assess, and synthesize the
results of available studies on Green Schools and determine the theoretical and
methodological basis for the effects of green schools on student learning and
teacher productivity.
The committee will undertake the following tasks:
1.Review and assess existing empirical and theoretical studies regarding the
possible connections between the characteristics of "Green Schools" and the
health and productivity of students and teachers.
2.Develop an evaluation framework for assessing the relevance and validity of
individual reports that considers the possible influence of such factors as
error, bias, confounding, or chance on the reported results and that integrates
the overall evidence within and between diverse types of studies.
3.Report the results of this effort in a manner that will facilitate the
identification of causal relationships and the subsequent implementation of
beneficial practices.
4.Identify avenues of research that represent potentially valuable
opportunities to leverage existing knowledge into a better understanding of the
relationships between green building technologies in schools and the
performance of students and teachers.
The sponsors of the project are the:
Massachusetts Technology Collaborative
The Kendall Foundation
The Barr Foundation
Connecticut Clean Energy
U.S. Green Building Council
U.S. Department of Energy
The approximate start date for the project is February 15, 2005.
Two reports are expected to be issued as follows: (1) a letter report will be
issued in October 2005; (2) the final report will be issued by April, 2006.
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Project Duration:
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16 months
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