The charter-school concept has also attracted new institutions into early education, says Tim Knowles, director of the Urban Education Institute, which is part of the University of Chicago.
For executives, the floating school concept provides an opportunity to undertake an intensive study period that will provide them with insights and knowledge unlikely to be found in a traditional lecture theater.
Despite this, when it's time to move on to the next concept in school, everyone in the room moves on, even if not everyone understands the previous concept yet.
This leads me to a more ambiguous relationship with the concept of school choice.
In fact, one of the things that first attracted me to the concept of school choice was the idea that perhaps students could escape the increasingly burgeoning testing apparatus.
The very concept of a neighborhood school has been undermined.
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"The school is helping us reinforce the concept that we want to be the employer of choice in south Florida, " says Anthony Burns, chief executive of this truck leasing and logistics firm.
Agents sent letters criticizing the concept to teachers and school-board members, and one agency hired a lawyer who questioned the process on multiple grounds, prompting the district to retrace some steps, according to Mr. Lloyd and public documents.
The nonprofit was founded just over 20 years ago by a small group of MBA students who wanted to make a difference and believed that business could be a force for good, which, at the time, was a novel concept in a business school.
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The school is focusing more on the Catholic concept of natural law in its undergraduate ethics course.
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She suggested that children born through donated sperm might be told in simple terms as soon as they could broadly understand the concept, perhaps even before school-age.
In an effort to monetize the concept, Mason dropped-out of graduate school and started working on Groupon as a side project before dedicating his full time to the site in the fall of 2008.
We mentor them, support them financially, encourage them to continue their education through high school continuing on through college and the university level into law school or any other professional school and supporting them with respect to this particular pipeline concept.
The concept of osmosis may mostly dredge up memories of high school biology.
This concept was applied to online products in an Harvard Business School research paper that looked at search features.
It is a popular concept -- earlier this year, students at Columbia Business School took part in a pitch competition in which the pleas for investment were actually delivered in an elevator, although these were filmed rather than having all the judges crammed inside as well.
Backing up your personal PC to external media might still be a novel concept for some, but any IT manager fresh out of school can tell you that regularly backing up mission-critical servers -- and storing those backups in multiple physical locations -- isn't merely important, it's practically non-negotiable, and it only becomes that much more critical before undertaking hardware maintenance.
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In a narrow sense, the concept of standards has become the basis for a particular approach to school improvement.
Their discussions led to the concept of taking a night, during the back-to-school window, where parents would be asked to talk with their children about money.
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Some of the spellers liked it, some didn't, and many were in-between, praising the concept but wondering why it wasn't announced at the beginning of the school year instead of seven weeks before the national bee.
Some of the spellers liked the change, some didn't, and many were in-between, praising the concept but wondering why it wasn't announced at the beginning of the school year instead of seven weeks before the national bee.
"Two dollars a day, to call that a middle class, I think it's a stretch concept, " says Thandika Mkandawire, a professor of African Development at the London School of Economics.
The scheme, which is based on an American concept, was proposed by Islington's lifelong learning manager Chris Jude, who left school herself at the age of 13.
Bentley is eager to give it to them in both old-school and nouveau-riche style: Along with a 12-cylinder engine that delivers 610 horsepower, the concept SUV sports diamond-quilted leather seats, handcrafted wood, leather and gunmetal trim, and built-in iPads for each passenger.
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