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Public Broadcasting Service, Alexandria, VA. – 1996
This document consists of the printed components only of a PBS curriculum package intended to be used with the 9-videotape PBS documentary series entitled "The West." The complete curriculum package includes a teacher's guide, lesson plans, a student guide, audio tapes, a video index, and promotional poster. The teacher's guide and…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian History, Multicultural Education, North American History
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Kurkul, Donna Lee – College and Research Libraries, 1983
Discusses methodology, logistics, and time/cost study of planning, implementation, and relocation of 682,810 volume Smith College Library collection into its newly constructed and renovated facility. Call number sequence location, collection movement phasing and formulas for sequence distribution, and personnel requirements are noted. Elementary…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Facility Expansion, Facility Improvement, Feasibility Studies
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Thomas, June Manning – Urban Education, 1979
Examines evidence supporting the theory that urban displacement is an example of the link between social injustice and economic interests. Considers federal policies regarding public housing, urban renewal, and highway construction and demonstrates how they have resulted in perpetuating discrimination against poorer citizens. (Author/WP)
Descriptors: Blacks, Capitalism, Economic Factors, Federal Government
Hyde, William – AGB Reports, 1980
A cost analysis of a prospective cooperative arrangement in which Housatonic Community College would move to the campus of the University of Bridgeport is outlined. Calculations include the cost of shared and exclusive leased facilities, library integration, administrative services, student services, and community relations services. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: College Administration, College Buildings, Community Colleges, Cost Effectiveness
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Blackhawk, Ned – WICAZO SA Review, 1995
Draws on experiences of American Indian women relocated to Los Angeles during the 1950s-60s to take part in Bureau of Indian Affairs job training and placement programs. These women faced the double burden of racial discrimination and white sex-role expectations, but adjusted to life in Los Angeles with the support of Indian community…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adjustment (to Environment), Federal Programs, Females
Keely, Charles B. – Migration World Magazine, 1992
Issues in resettlement of women and children, who make up about 80 percent of refugees of concern to the United Nations, are discussed. Bias toward males in the admission of refugees for resettlement demonstrated in data for 1985-91 for the United States, Canada, and Australia may exist elsewhere. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Females, Foreign Countries
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Wertsman, Vladimir F. – MultiCultural Review, 1993
Selectively highlights important reference and desiderata titles (books and periodicals) in English and Romanian by and about Romanian Americans. Thirty-six titles are cited in the following groups: (1) land-of-origin concerns; (2) immigration, adjustment, and settlement in America; (3) regional and local settlement--achievements and concerns; and…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adjustment (to Environment), Annotated Bibliographies, Books
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Pitsula, James M. – Great Plains Quarterly, 1997
From 1964 to 1971, Saskatchewan's Thatcher government pursued a policy of providing Metis and Indian job placements, supported by job training and housing in urban relocation centers. Based on economic integration of individuals into mainstream society, the government's plan appeared insufferably paternalistic as increasingly militant Metis…
Descriptors: Activism, American Indian Education, American Indian History, Foreign Countries
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Ichiyama, Michael A.; And Others – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1996
Surveyed 119 Hawaiian residents, who relocated to the mainland to attend college, to determine the effects of long-term mainland relocation on their attitudes, ethnic identity, and affiliative behavior. Findings reveal declining ethnic identity, an early developing awareness of their changed social status, and an unaffected affiliative behavior…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Affiliation Need, Attitude Change, Comparative Analysis
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Shriver, Thomas E.; Kennedy, Dennis K. – Rural Sociology, 2005
The majority of the literature on contaminated communities indicates that environmental hazards lead to conflict and dissension. In this paper we examine the salient dimensions of conflict and factionalism in a rural Oklahoma community. The community is heavily contaminated from 80 years of commercial mining operations and was one of the first…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Physical Environment, Hazardous Materials, Conflict
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Romans, John S. C.; Hays, Joni R.; Pearson, Christy; Duroy, L. Chris; Carlozzi, Barbara – Journal of School Violence, 2006
In a study of stalking in secondary schools, 140 respondents reported they had been stalked, with perpetrators being evenly distributed between students and non-students. The largest non-student group of perpetrators was parents of students. Harassing phone calls and threatening correspondence constituted most of the stalking behaviors, but…
Descriptors: Prevention, School Counselors, Violence, Bullying
Lomawaima, K. Tsianina – 1999
A critical examination of the colonial education of American Indians unearths the roots of many stereotypical beliefs about the culture and capabilities of Native Americans. Deep-seated ideas and practices that were accepted as natural by past colonizers continue to undergird contemporary stereotypes about American Indians. The tenets of colonial…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Education, American Indians, Boarding Schools
Halstead, Kent – 1989
The theory and procedures for measuring geographical differentials in cost of living, amenities, wages, and cost of government services are presented. These differences are important to individuals seeking optimal locations, and within groups seeking equitable treatment in locational assignments. Indexes for these factors are reported for 579…
Descriptors: Consumer Economics, Cost Indexes, Costs, Economic Change
Wilson, Franklin D. – 1986
This paper evaluates the hypothesis that patterns of migration within and between the metropolitan and nonmetropolitan sectors and between regions, and migrant/nonmigrant differentials in education attainment during the 1935-1980 period of United States history reflect historical differences in socioeconomic development and settlement patterns.…
Descriptors: Demography, Educational Attainment, Educational Status Comparison, Educational Trends
Stein, Barry N. – 1980
This report on refugee resettlement programs and techniques addresses two central issues: (1) what kinds of assistance should be made available by the Federal government to incoming refugees; and (2) which services in the public and private sectors have been most effective in helping refugees to achieve self sufficiency? Chapter I provides a brief…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adjustment (to Environment), Agency Role, Cubans
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