Buying Guide - School Furniture

Buying Guide

School Furniture

Get valuable tips for furnishing your classroom. Learn about the ins and outs of purchasing quality, comfortable and durable classroom furniture including school desks and chairs, computer furniture, science lab furniture and more.

Buying the Right Activity Table

Many, if not most, kindergarten and classrooms for younger children are equipped with activity tables. Many school furniture purchases change the classroom environment, but this is especially true in the case of an activity table.
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Hertz Classroom Furniture (Part 1)

Over the last 45 years, Hertz Furniture has become America's source for classroom furniture. We know nothing is more conducive to a successful learning experience than a properly thought-out and well-equipped classroom. Let’s start with a review of our basic school chairs.
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Hertz Classroom Furniture (Part 2)

Most school desks in elementary and high schools have bookboxes. There are two types of book boxes: open or closed. Closed bookboxes (metal or plastic) can only be seen into by the person sitting at the school desk.
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Part 1: School Furniture for the Junior High and High School Classroom

Generally speaking, just about everything that applies to elementary school furniture applies to junior high and high school as well.
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Part 2: School Furniture for the Junior High and High School Classroom

As mentioned in Part 1 of this article, students in 7th-12th grades have a number of school supplies and books that they need for each class.
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Hertz Furniture Reflects on Twentieth Anniversary of US Charter School Movement

Twenty years ago the first US charter school opened. The world of education was different then. Parents had public school, private school, religious school or home-school options. For some students and families one of these was the right fit, but not for all. Students who had special talents, special interests or special needs were often struggling to be square pegs in a world of round holes.
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Classroom Furniture Tutorial: Classroom Desks

So, you have your students sitting on something, but what are they going to write on? Most classrooms of fourth grade and above, but many from first grade on, seat their children at desks (as opposed to sitting them around tables).
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Classroom Furniture Tutorial: Classroom Seating

Over the last 40 years, Hertz Furniture has become the premier source for school furniture. We know nothing is more conducive to a successful learning experience than a properly thought-out and well-equipped classroom.
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