The Labor Department had already been investigating at least one Concept school.
With the association's help, the local 'Montessori concept' school has grown from 10 pupils to 800 - the largest in the province - while the Kultur Mediothek provides a cafe, a library, computer facilities, a film club and a counselling service for migrants.
It is in this account that the classification of thinkers into three concept schools, Daoist, Legalist, and School of Names first occurs.
Undoubtedly, the Midwest "system" Harrington referred to is Concept Schools, an Illinois-based charter school management organization currently under FBI investigation.
Concept Schools also manages 27 publicly funded Gulen charter schools -- a controversial network of charters run by followers of Fethullah Gulen, a prominent Turkish preacher who has inspired a worldwide religious, social and nationalistic movement.
As Diane Ravitch points out in her education blog, the Minnesota School of Science is part of a chain of urban, Midwestern charter schools managed by Concept Schools, a nonprofit management and consulting organization based in Chicago.
The UNICEF Representative stressed that by embracing the Child Friendly School concept, schools would be managed in a way that ensured a child's holistic development.
Students learn about these concepts in school.
These were models that provided teachers with extensive professional development and materials with a definite structure designed to build vocabulary, phonemic awareness, early math concepts, and school skills.
The concept of school-to-school support is nothing new.
