"The idea isn’t new — there was a movement in the late 1960s to build “open classrooms” — but it’s made a comeback recently out of 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. From 2015 to 2018, the school resources crowdfunding site DonorsChoose.org saw requests for funding for flexible furniture balloon from 110 to 21,163."
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