At the museum, curators pointed to displays showing how, at the Manassas Park Elementary School, Manassas, Va., explanatory posters on successive floors of the building echo the layers of the school forest outside the windows — from the forest floor to the understory and on up through the canopy.
Like all other previous invasions, the new wave of hot U.K. videogames quirky and vicious at the same time takes uniquely American concepts like mindless violence, adds a few layers of public school madness and sells the final products back to the Americans.
Though perhaps we're reading a little too many layers of art-school symbolism into everything at the moment.
William G. Ouchi uses the term to describe what he sees as the inefficient bureaucracy of the public school system: "With all of these unnecessary layers of organizational fat, school districts have come to resemble Jabba the Hutt the pirate leader in Star Wars".
The debate about legal education has focused on tuition costs in the stratospheric layers of the law-school world.
What Holdsworth finds isn't gooey ectoplasm left by a phantom but layers of secrecy in a school whose fortress-like design is still porous enough to let people drift about at night.
A pair of murals painted over 60 years ago have been discovered underneath layers of paint at a secondary school in Berkshire.
The local authorities in Koriyama have tried to ease the problem by digging up the top layer of soil in school and day centre playgrounds, but residents near the proposed dump site have objected.
Any attempts by the state to build more layers of oversight and regulation over the schools, he said, would effectively render his unprecedented control of them meaningless.
But if he stops there, he will merely have postponed California's judgment day.An even bolder Mr Schwarzenegger would try to use his extraordinary mandate to reorganise the state to change the shape of the legislature, to give parents more control over schools, to abolish layers of overlapping government and even to set limits to the initiative process which spawned him.
