Originally Posted by puffin
I still can't work out how it is different to the open plan classrooms of the 70's which were disestablished because they didn't work.

You know, if it looks like a duck...

I got to give it to the public school system in NZ for at least not giving up on progressive education.

Mahagogo5, are you sure it's going to be 60 students all in one classroom all the time? I can't imagine that working for the majority of elementary school students. Maybe that's just one of many settings?