Education Next – Catherine Lange and Nicole Falcone
“For too long schools have followed a similar architectural design, rooted in “sit and get” learning traditions that were created in the post-Industrial Revolution era. This, combined with the rigid schedule where secondary kids move in age-based cohorts every 40 to 50 minutes to another content area creates an inflexible school experience, designed with the“one size fits all” mentality. Many people around the country, though, are questioning the logic of both and creating radical new ways to approach time and space to transform student learning experiences.”(more)