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Kennedy, Mike – American School & University, 2000
Discusses the importance of knowing the type of climate a school is likely to endure as a decision element for selecting a school roofing system. The influence of extreme temperature shifts, wind, and excessive heat in the decision making process are discussed as are ways of improving maintenance and monitoring practices. (GR)
Descriptors: Climate, Decision Making, Educational Facilities Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Bannon, Kay T. – Reaching Today's Youth: The Community Circle of Caring Journal, 1999
Describes the Cherokee Language Renewal Program that was designed to help Cherokee elementary school children learn to function in the dominant culture without sacrificing their own cultural heritage. Explains how the program got started, and reports on how it helps restore a cultural identify to a people who are at risk of losing their identity.…
Descriptors: Cherokee, Cultural Maintenance, Cultural Relevance, Elementary Education
Griffin, William R. – School Planning and Management, 1998
Provides advice on developing an effective floor and carpet-care program for public schools. Considers eight primary elements: writing cleaning procedures; establishing accountability policies; providing quality-assurance guidelines; making daily and periodic assignments; developing a continuous quality-improvement program; providing on-going…
Descriptors: Carpeting, Cleaning, Elementary Secondary Education, Flooring
Griffin, William R. – School Planning and Management, 1998
Discusses the need for custodial training and presents training tips. Also examines how to identify what specific training may be needed for a particular school, the training areas that need frequent repeating over time, and ideas for conducting effective training classes. (GR)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Job Training, Program Development, Public Schools
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Bettoni, Camilla; Rubino, Antonia – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1998
Presents data on patterns of language use by Italians living in Australia, focusing on the maintenance of Italian and Dialect under the impact of widespread shift to English. Data from self-report surveys suggest differences by gender, age, and region of origin and note that the position of Italian, though more limited, is somewhat more solid than…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Foreign Countries, Italian, Language Maintenance
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Strong Woman; Moondancer – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 1998
Provides a brief history of the Wampanoag Indians and the extinction of their language, Massachusett. Describes the Massachusett Language Revival Project and the sources underpinning its instructional materials: the 1663 "Indian Bible" and Massachusett grammar book by John Eliot, and early dictionaries and vocabularies. (SV)
Descriptors: American Indian History, American Indian Languages, Language Maintenance, Resource Materials
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Pavlenko, Aneta – International Journal of Bilingualism, 2001
Discusses the relationship between bilingualism and gender within a feminist poststructuralist framework. Suggests that all language contact phenomena, including bilingualism, acquire different meanings in different contexts and can be linked to gender only indirectly. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Context Effect, Feminism, Ideology
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Campbell, Russell; Iwasaki, Shoichi; Kagan, Olga; Macias, Reynaldo; Paul, Kathryn; Reid, Helen – Bilingual Research Journal, 2000
A small working panel of scholars met to determine the major research issues and gaps in heritage language education. General research issues identified include data collection, stakeholder involvement, contextual considerations, underlying attitudes and motivations, and assessment. Specific research questions were organized into seven main areas:…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Conferences, Interdisciplinary Approach, Language Attitudes
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Klein, Daniel N.; Santiago, Neil J.; Vivian, Dina; Blalock, Janice A.; Kocsis, James H.; Markowitz, John C.; McCullough, James P., Jr.; Rush, John A.; Trivedi, Madhukar H.; Arnow, Bruce A.; Dunner, David L.; Manber, Rachel; Rothbaum, Barbara; Thase, Michael E.; Keitner, Gabor I.; Miller, Ivan W.; Keller, Martin B. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2004
Although the efficacy of maintenance pharmacotherapy for the prevention of recurrence in major depressive disorder (MDD) is well documented, few studies have tested the efficacy of psychotherapy as a maintenance treatment. The authors examined the efficacy of the cognitive-behavioral analysis system of psychotherapy (CBASP) as a maintenance…
Descriptors: Psychotherapy, Patients, Maintenance, Depression (Psychology)
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Rogers, Vaughan; McLeod, Wilson – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2006
This paper examines the relationship between policy and politics in relation to the development of public-sector primary education through Breton and Gaelic, considering closely the patterns of power through which such provision is delivered. Brittany and Scotland present many similarities as culturally distinctive territories, contained within…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Politics, Uncommonly Taught Languages, Language Minorities
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Clagett, Craig A. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2004
Guided by clear planning principles, and under the custodial care of a governance council, the model strategic planning process at Carroll Community College is evidence-driven, connected to budget decisions, and continuously refreshed.
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, School Maintenance, Community Colleges, Governance
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Vonen, Arnfinn Muruvik – Sign Language Studies, 2006
Inspired by Johnston's thought-provoking article, this article reports from the current Norwegian scene to make two main points. First, Norwegian Sign Language paradoxically appears to be better protected as well as more threatened than ever. Second, success in bilingual deaf education is not logically incompatible with a placement primarily in…
Descriptors: Deafness, Norwegian, Sign Language, Mainstreaming
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Gurchiek, Larry; Mokha, Monique Butcher – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2004
Most coaches recognize the importance of creating a safe environment and preventing injuries of their athletes. Domain 2 is dedicated to this important aspect of coaching, and outlines specific areas within safety and injury prevention that coaches should address. Domain 2 sets the standards for facility, equipment, and environmental safety…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Equipment Maintenance, Athletes, Athletics
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Noriega, Chon A. – Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 2005
One must undertake multi-institutional efforts that include universities, archives, museums, libraries and community-based arts organizations and the artists to preserve Latino art history. Arts infrastructure can be strengthened by various Chicano Studies Research Center projects that are concerned with archive building and scholarship, and with…
Descriptors: Museums, Art History, Art Education, Latin Americans
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Sutradhar, B. – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2006
Purpose: To describe how an institutional repository (IR) was set up, using open source software, at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Kharagpur. Members of the IIT can publish their research documents in the IR for online access as well as digital preservation. Material in this IR includes instructional materials, records, data sets,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Libraries, Archives, Academic Libraries
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