Figuring out how to furnish a school cafeteria the right way is harder than it looks. A facilities director in Illinois found that out the hard way. She ordered cafeteria tables in June. The tables arrived in August. They looked right, fit the room, and came in under budget. By November, her custo …

A desk that costs $65 and a desk that costs $140 can look almost identical in a catalog photo. Three or four years later in a classroom, the difference becomes obvious. One still feels solid after daily cleaning, constant movement, and years of student use. The other starts wobbling, chipping at t …

A classroom can have plenty of storage and still end up with supplies stacked on counters, materials piled near the teacher's desk, and backpacks scattered across the floor. Most of the time, the problem is not the amount of storage in the room. It is where the storage was placed, how high it was …