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They’re Baaaaaack!
September 06, 2012 by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) at 06:28 AM
In a stunning demonstration of how failed educational trends get recycled, three brand new open plan schools opened their doors yesterday. more
Open plan schools are a byword in educational circles for expensive fads that fail (here’s an article from our archives).
George Santayana remarked that those who can’t remember the past are doomed to repeat it. In the case of educators, it’s too recent for them to have forgotten the failure of open plan schools - so it’s not that these educators can’t remember the past. Rather, they are rejecting the past. I wonder what George Santayana would say about that?