It was a very short one, but an interesting story. The name of Lillian
Weber might be a clue to finding further information, or perhaps Ken will
know?
Eva
>Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 10:00:16 -0700 (MST)
>Resent-Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 10:03:10 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Ken Goodman <kgoodman who-is-at U.Arizona.EDU>
>To: xmca who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu
>Subject: Re: The survival of settings
>
>
>Lillian Weber, a great educator, who was at City University, developed a
>program she called Open Corridors. She worked in NY City schools with bolt
>down
>desks in rows in very old buildings. But these buildings had wide corridors
>with very high ceilings. So the teachers made maximum use f the corridors
>to do
>the group work and projects the inflexible classrooms would not permit. Man=
y
>teachers believe there's always a way to do good teaching.
>Ken Goodman