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very critical tool to support teaching and promote learning has
been largely ignored during these discussions: the physical
design of learning spaces. According to the National Education
Association, the average public school building is close to 50
years old. Only 10 percent of America’s public schools have been
built in the past 20 years. That means that the estimated 25
percent of our nation’s population that goes to school every day
is being failed miserably by the nearly 140,000 schools,
colleges and universities they are attending. The use of
evidence-based design and responsive research, however, intends
to change that. Evidence-based design (EBD) emphasizes the use
of credible data in order to influence the design process to
achieve the best possible outcome. Responsive research takes EBD
one step further by considering academic research along with
professional experience and economic, social, cultural and
political factors to form the cont