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Utah State Office of Education, Salt Lake City. – 2001
This booklet provides an overview of security technology product areas that might be appropriate and affordable for school applications. Topics cover security concepts and operational issues; security issues when designing for new schools; the role of maintenance; video camera use; walk-through metal detectors; duress alarm devices; and a partial…
Descriptors: Crime Prevention, Educational Facilities Design, Elementary Secondary Education, Prevention
New York State Association for Superintendents of School Buildings and Grounds, Albany. – 1999
This paper helps all those concerned with keeping schools clean and properly maintained in adopting healthier cleaning and maintenance practices and promoting the purchase and use of environmentally preferable products which perform well and are cost effective. It explains how children are exposed to toxic chemicals in school cleaning and…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Cleaning, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines
Liska, Roger William – 1988
This paper developed methodology to assist school principals in determining the existence of potential indoor air pollution problems and how to alleviate them, as well as a procedure for pollution prevention. Site visits were conducted on 10 South Carolina elementary schools: five with high potential for indoor air pollution; five with low…
Descriptors: Administrators, Air Pollution, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
Cisilino, William – 2001
Rhaeto-Romansh is a Neo-Latin language with three varieties. Occidental Rhaeto-Romansh (Romansh) is spoken in Switzerland, in the Canton of the Grisons. Central Rhaeto-Romansh (Dolomite Ladin) is spoken in some of the Italian Dolomite valleys, in the Province of Belluno, Bozen/Bolzano, and Trento. Oriental Rhaeto-Romansh (Friulian) is spoken in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Maintenance, Language Minorities, Official Languages
Dorfman, Sharon L. – 2000
Programs and services that prevent substance abuse and mental health disorders have the potential to lessen an enormous burden of suffering and to reduce both the cost of future treatment and lost productivity at work and home. The availability and accessibility of these interventions to Americans whose health care is provided by managed care…
Descriptors: Health Maintenance Organizations, Health Promotion, Intervention, Mental Health
Khubchandani, Lachman M. – 2000
Tribal cultures in South India are extremely varied. This paper examines different indicators of modernization, such as the degree of urbanization and the spread of literacy among the tribes, focusing on how modernization affects the tribal mind set and how this awareness is reflected in various processes of acculturation (e.g., claiming one's…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations
King, Jeannette – 2003
This paper discusses the use of metaphors in describing relationships with indigenous languages, focusing on native and newly-fluent speakers of Maori in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Data come from interviews with male and female Maori speakers age 19-44 years who discussed their commitment to becoming fluent speakers of Maori and used a range of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Language Maintenance, Maori
Aretov, Nikolay – 2001
This paper discusses the concept of Bulgarian national mythology, a secondary mythology that emerged around the late 18th century based on the fundamental opposition Chaos-Cosmos, near-far, up-down, good-evil, God-Satan, and human-non-human. The new mythology redefined self-images and images of the Other, the main figures, and narratives about…
Descriptors: Bulgarian, Folk Culture, Foreign Countries, Greek
Chambliss, Catherine – 2000
An emphasis on therapy research and empirically supported treatments (ESTs) is currently suggested as the answer to many therapists' and counselors' problems with behavioral healthcare. Those eager to protect psychologists' share of behavioral care in an era of managed care are utilizing ESTs and process research to demonstrate the effectiveness…
Descriptors: Counseling, Counselor Role, Counselor Training, Health Maintenance Organizations
General Services Administration, Washington, DC. Public Buildings Service. – 1999
This guidebook provides maintenance and operations guidelines for managing General Services Administration (GSA) child care centers within the same standards and level of a GSA operated facility. Areas covered address cleaning standards and guidelines; equipment funding and inventory; maintenance of living environments and problem areas;…
Descriptors: Day Care Centers, Facilities Management, Guidelines, Preschool Children
National Food Service Management Inst., University, MS. – 1997
A satellite seminar on large-scale food production equipment discusses ways child nutrition personnel can maximize use of existing equipment, considers research related to use of existing equipment, explains plan reviews for equipment selection and purchase, and explores new equipment options. Examples illustrate use of planning or modernizing…
Descriptors: Dining Facilities, Educational Facilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Equipment Evaluation
Valentine, Susan M.; Supinski, Stanley B.; Sutherland, Richard L. – 2001
This study addressed how to maintain "use or lose" language skills among Department of Defense linguists. The study, which involved over 300 linguists at 61 installations worldwide, supported the Air Force strategy of global engagement by regularly providing pedagogically sound language maintenance materials in small doses and…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Computer Uses in Education, Discussion Groups, Electronic Mail
APPA: Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers, Alexandria, VA. – 1998
The 20 chapters of this guide to custodial staffing in educational facilities are grouped into five parts addressing: (1) staffing, (2) evaluation, (3) special considerations, (4) staff development tools, and (5) case studies. The five chapters on staffing are all by Jack C. Dudley and are titled: "General Methods"; "The Mathematics of Change";…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Facilities, Facility Guidelines, Higher Education
Glazner, Steve, Ed. – 1998
This volume presents 12 papers offering guidelines to higher education institutions on planning for the deregulation of the electric power industry. Following an introduction (by Dorsey D. Jacobs), the papers are organized into three parts which address: the changing market, identifying opportunities and challenges, and taking advantage of…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Educational Facilities, Electricity, Facilities Management
Qayoumi, Mohammed H. – 1999
This volume provides a guide to management of utilities metering in educational facilities, especially colleges and universities. Chapter 1 gives an overview of why utility measurement, specifically the metering of energy consumption, is important in facilities management. Chapter 2 defines the basic units of measurement for both electric and…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities, Electricity, Energy Conservation, Energy Management
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