“Open Classroom” Redux?

Back in the late 1960s, many schools explored the concept of “open classrooms.” According to a recent article in the Hechinger Report, a similar idea is now making a comeback … primarily from “a desire to create a collaboration-minded workforce that will thrive in the open office spaces being built by companies such as Google and Facebook” (Iasevoli, 2019). Revisiting and expanding Herbert Kohl’s ideas (Kohl, 1970) is an interesting concept. Was Kohl was simply ahead of his time?