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LBNL-51780 Do Indoor Environments in Schools Influence Student Performance? A Review of the Literature Mark J. Mendell *' Garvin A. Heath Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Environmental Energy Technologies Division Indoor Environment Department Berkeley, C A 94720 University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, C A 94720 October 2003 The work was part of the Indoor Health and Productivity Project (IHP), a collaborative project supported by a number of public and private sponsors including the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC03-76SF00098, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Institute for Standards and Technology. This report was also funded by the Indoor Environments Division of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

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