| Description |
1 online resource (260 pages) : illustrations, tables |
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Work, health, and environment series |
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Work, health, and environment series.
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| Contents |
""The Toxic Schoolhouse""; ""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""PART I The Problem""; ""Chapter 1. Who's in Charge of Children's Environmental Health at School?""; ""Chapter 2. Who's Sick at School: Linking Poor School Conditions and Health Disparities for Boston's Children""; ""June 2012 Update on Who's Sick at School Report""; ""Chapter 3. Failing Our Children: Lead in U.S. School Drinking Water""; ""Chapter 4. PCBs in School„Persistent Chemicals, Persistent Problems"" |
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""Update on PCBs in School""""Chapter 5. Healthy School Siting and Planning Policies: Linking Public Health, Education, and the Environment""; ""PART II Organizing for Change""; ""Chapter 6. ""Serving Two Masters""„An Interview with School Teacher and Union Organizer Debra Askwith""; ""Chapter 7. ""We Can't Give Up, It's Too Important""„Health and Safety Stories from Canadian and U.S. Schools""; ""Chapter 8. New Jersey's Union-Centered Healthy Schools Work""; ""Chapter 9. Negotiating Indoor Air„Case Report on Negotiation of Teachers' Union, School Board on Air Contaminants"" |
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""Chapter 10. School Custodians and Green Cleaners: Labor-Environment Coalitions and Toxics Reduction""""PART III Advances in Policy""; ""Chapter 11. Integrated Pest Management Policies in America's Schools: Is Federal Legislation Needed?""; ""Chapter 12. Reducing Asthma Triggers in Schools: Recommendations for Effective Policies, Regulations, and Legislation""; ""Chapter 13. Building the New Schoolhouse: The Massachusetts School Building Authority""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""; ""Back Cover"" |
| Summary |
The Toxic Schoolhouseis a collection of articles on chemical hazards endangering students, teachers, and staff in the education system of the United States and Canada. Some of the articles were originally published in a special issue of New Solutions: A Journal of Occupational and Environmental Policy, but all have been updated and several new articles have been added. The book is organized in three sections. The first describes problems ranging from the failures of coordination, monitoring, and siting of school buildings to the hazards of exposure to toxic substances, including lead and PCBs. The second section captures the voices of activists seeking change and describes community and union organizing efforts to improve school conditions. The third section covers policy solutions. The authors include academics, union staff and rank-and-file activists, parent organization leaders, and public health professionals. ABOUT THE EDITORS MADELEINE KANGSEN SCAMMELL, DSc is an assistant professor of environmental health at the Boston University School of Public Health. She leads the Community Engagement and Research Translation Cores of the Boston University Superfund Research Program. CHARLES LEVENSTEIN, PhD, MSc, is an economist and policy analyst. He is professor emeritus in the Department of Work Environment at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, having retired from teaching in 2003, an adjunct professor of occupational health at Tufts University School of Medicine, and one of the leading researchers on social factors in occupational and environmental health |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Safety education -- United States
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Safety education -- Canada
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Schools.
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Environmental health.
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Pollutants.
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Environmental Exposure -- prevention & control
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Schools
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Environmental Health
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Environmental Pollutants
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Safety Management
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schools (institutions)
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schools (buildings)
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pollutants.
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Schools
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Pollutants
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Environmental health
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Safety education
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| SUBJECT |
Canada |
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United States |
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Canada
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Scammell, Madeleine Kangsen
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Levenstein, Charles
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| ISBN |
9780895038524 |
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0895038528 |
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9780895038531 |
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0895038536 |
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