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The school incorporates a lot of natural light and has all updated materials in excellent condition. The Lea school is about 30 years old and, like many Philadelphia public schools, lacks adequate facility funding. Many of the materials and building are outdated and deteriorating. Students at Penn Alex were significantly more positive than students at Lea regarding their school and rated wall color, variety of wall color, amount of lighting, amount of art work on display, personally having art work on display, overall appearance of the school, peers opinion of overall appearance, and elements that should be changed all higher. In addition, Penn Alex students had more positive attitudes including proud to show visitors, school makes them feel good, school appearance is not distracting, adults care about how the school looks, appearance is fine the way it is, and feelings of responsibility for taking care of the school. Students at both schools preferred brighter o paler colors and thought that displayed art work made the school look better. They also thought color and lighting were the most important changes that could be made and preferred the colors blue, red, and white.

Vining (2006) recognizes that there are many different factors involved in the quality of education that a child receives in school. The interior environment of schools is a factor not often considered, but one that is much more easily improved than other factors. The students' opinion of their school interior environment can affect their attitude toward education in general. Even if the effect of the school interior environment on student experience is proven to be small compared to other variables, it is an aspect of education that is within the realm of administrators, educators, and communities to change.

As noted in these studies, color of classrooms is only one factor of many that will impact the students' impression of the school and academic performance. However, as expressed by Vining, changing the color...

When schools have a limited budget or when teachers want to somehow make changes in their rooms that may enhance the academic and disciplinary environment, color should be a factor to consider.
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Ballast, D.K. (2002). Interior design reference manual. Professional Pub. Inc.: Belmont, CA.

Boyatzis CJ and Varghese, R. (1994) Journal of Genetic Psychology; 155(1) 77-85

Hupka, R.B, Zbigniew, Z, Jurgen O., Reidl, L. And Tarabrina, L. The colors of anger, envy, fear, and jealousy: a cross-cultural study. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 28.(2)156-162

Kuller, R. (1976). The Use of Space -- Some Physiological and Philosophical Aspects. Paper presented at the Third International Architectural Psychology Conference, University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France.
Young, E. (2003) Do K-12 School Facilities Affect Education Outcomes?" Nashville, TN: Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. Retrieved July 12, 2007 www.state.tn.us/tacir/PDF" http://www.state.tn.us/tacir/PDF
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