Defenders of the open classroom model say there is nothing like it, according to testimonials posted from alumni families at lagunitasopenclassroom.com “When Carol and I found a school program ...

“You can hear your teacher now instead of the one next door.” The open-classroom model was one of several educational trends to emerge nationally in the 1960s, joining such ideas as the whole ...

the word “classroom” doesn’t come to mind. But the learning space at Mount Vernon Presbyterian School is an example of what a growing number of educators see as the model for the future of ...

Built in the mid-1970s during the apex of educational experimentation all across the country, the classrooms for grades four through six in P.S. 175 followed the “open classroom” model of a ...

In the 1980s, the increased emphasis on standardized testing and teacher accountability caused the open classroom model to fall out of fashion. It was replaced by whole-group instruction that ...

“This school was built with the old California model, which is an open classroom model. Each of our pod areas here have about 5,000 square feet and no walls on the inside. So it is a very ...

But now, officials are proposing to modernize the town’s only school built around the decades-old, open classroom model. The board of education has approved educational specifications ...