Maryland schools want walls for classrooms

Nov. 3, 2008
Districts seek funds to enclose "open-space" classrooms
Crofton Woods Elementary is one of 34 Anne Arundel County (Md.) schools without walls separating its classes. Now, county school leaders are planning to spend millions of dollars to construct real classrooms -- joining school systems across the state in a multimillion-dollar mission to put to rest the 1970s-era experiment of "open-space" schools. From the Eastern Shore to Western Maryland, students still are struggling to learn in classrooms without walls. And school systems are lining up for money to build walls. To read The Baltimore Sun article, click here.

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