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Moore, Frank J. – School Business Affairs, 2002
Describes maintenance tips to prolong the life of school building roofs. (PKP)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Roofing, School Maintenance
Steger, Michael – College Planning & Management, 2000
Explains the maintenance options available for hardwood flooring that can help ensure long life cycles and provide inviting spaces. Developing a maintenance system, knowing the type of traffic that the floor must endure, using entrance matting, and adhering to manufacturers guidelines are discussed. Daily, monthly or quarterly, and long-term…
Descriptors: Cleaning, Colleges, Finishing, Flooring
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Granger, David A. – Educational Theory, 1998
Expands on Richard Poirier's interpretation of pragmatism and his discussion of Dewey as an Emersonian pragmatist, discussing linguistic issues related to Dewey and to Emerson's responses to the temptations of external-world and other-minds skepticism. The paper concludes with remarks about the relevance to education of Dewey's and Emerson's work…
Descriptors: Cultural Maintenance, Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories
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Dahlgren, Sally – Athletic Business, 2000
Discusses how advances in light-emitting diode (LED) technology is helping video displays at sporting events get fans closer to the action than ever before. The types of LED displays available are discussed as are their operation and maintenance issues. (GR)
Descriptors: Display Systems, Equipment Maintenance, Postsecondary Education
Adams, Matt – Facilities Manager, 2002
Discusses maintenance business plans, statements which provide accountability for facilities maintenance organizations' considerable budgets. Discusses the plan's components: statement of plan objectives, macro and detailed description of the facility assets, maintenance function descriptions, description of key performance indicators, milestone…
Descriptors: Accountability, Facilities Management, Performance, School Maintenance
Gossett, Elaine – Facilities Manager, 2001
Describes how Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, successfully reversed a 15-year contract management arrangement for custodial services and built its own in-house management team. The article describes and presents results of the university's task-development workshop. (GR)
Descriptors: Management Teams, Planning, School Maintenance, Workshops
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Arnold, L. Eugene; Chuang, Shirley; Davies, Mark; Abikoff, Howard B.; Conners, C. Keith; Elliott, Glen R.; Greenhill, Laurence L.; Hechtman, Lily; Hinshaw, Stephen P.; Hoza, Betsy; Jensen, Peter S.; Kraemer, Helena C.; Langworthy-Lam, Kristen S.; March, John S.; Newcorn, Jeffrey H.; Pelham, William E.; Severe, Joanne B.; Swanson, James M.; Vitiello, Benedetto; Wells, Karen C.; Wigal, Timothy – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2004
We examined 9-month data from the 14-month NIMH Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with ADHD (the MTA) as a further check on the relative effect of medication (MedMgt) and behavioral treatment (Beh) for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) while Beh was still being delivered at greater intensity than at 14-month endpoint, and…
Descriptors: Maintenance, Hyperactivity, Generalization, Attention Deficit Disorders
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Anderson, Drew A.; Simmons, Angela M.; Milnes, Suzanne M. – International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy, 2005
Behavioral treatments are perhaps the cornerstone of modern obesity treatment. Maintenance of weight lost via behavioral treatments has been less than hoped for, however. Weight regain is the result of complex interactions between physiological, behavioral, cognitive, and environmental factors; in this paper we review some of these factors and…
Descriptors: Obesity, Body Weight, Behavior Modification, Maintenance
Vigue, Beverly – American School & University, 2006
The goal of an effective security program is to prevent vandalism, reduce the risk of personal violence, prevent direct or collateral damage to assets and facilities, preserve a safe and secure environment while limiting liability, and lower repair and maintenance costs. With the proper equipment it is possible to achieve all these things. A door…
Descriptors: Structural Elements (Construction), School Security, Maintenance
Ferreira, Danielle – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study involved an investigation of the effects of strategy instruction integrated with the concrete-representational-abstract teaching sequence on students with learning disabilities. A multiple probe design across subjects with one replication was used in this study. Two sets of data were analyzed to determine effectiveness of the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Maintenance, Learning Disabilities, Predictor Variables
Landa, Katrina G. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study investigated the effects of repeated readings on the reading abilities of 4, third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade English language learners (ELLs) with specific learning disabilities (SLD). A multiple baseline probe design across subjects was used to explore the effects of repeated readings on four dependent variables: reading fluency…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Reading Comprehension, Readability, Intervention
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Dilans, Gatis – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2009
What makes people, in shifting power positions of a post-independence period, plan on disusing an already known L2 or learn a new L2? What are the reasons for such shifts and what outcomes can, therefore, be predicted for the future of societal bilingualism surviving alongside ongoing efforts at monolingual unification in a newly independent…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Speech Communication, Bilingual Education, Monolingualism
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Paciotto, Carla – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2009
The Italian-Slovenian border represents a dynamic vantage point from which to observe how cultural and linguistic contact takes place and how minority groups have created educational strategies to preserve their cultural and linguistic diversity while striving for respectful coexistence with the dominant society. Slovene-medium schools have been…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Language Minorities, Language Maintenance, Bilingual Schools
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Nyland, Berenice; Zeng, Xiaodong; Nyland, Chris; Tran, Ly – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2009
Many grandparents play a significant role as educators and carers of children in the preschool years. Recently, this role has become the focus of much early childhood research as challenges facing grandparent carers and grandparent-headed households increasingly become an economic and social issue. Using survey data from China we explore the role…
Descriptors: Grandparents, Foreign Countries, Parent Role, Child Care
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Brayboy, Bryan McKinley Jones; Castagno, Angelina E. – Teaching Education, 2009
In this article, we outline culturally responsive schooling (CRS) for Indigenous youth and situate this concept within a larger history of US federal and community-based efforts to educate Indigenous youth in the USA. We examine what we know from the research literature about the impacts of CRS among US Indigenous youth. In exploring the research,…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Cultural Maintenance, Literacy, Indigenous Knowledge
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