The dementia epidemic is progressing fast. As the world’s older population keeps skyrocketing, the traditional incompetent, time-consuming, and laborious interventions are becoming increasingly insufficient to address dementia patients’ health care needs. This is particularly true amid COVID-19. Instead, efficient, cost-effective, and technology-based strategies, such as sixth-generatio…
Jewish involvement in Arabic press and journalism accompanied the process of modernization of Jewish communities in the Middle East and North Africa from the second half of the nineteenth century. There was a connection between the nature of the Jews' involvement in the canonical Arab culture and the development of the Arabic-Jewish press and journalism: wherever Jews tried to integrate sociall…
News writing -- a crucial part of journalism -- is a necessity for students, especially those at PBSI (Indonesian Language and Literature Education). Students must be able to produce writings containing news or events that are observed and experienced directly in society. In achieving these output targets, lecturers must be able to motivate students for learning by making it interesting and usi…
This article examines French-Iranian literary interactions in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, which arguably had ongoing effects in Iran on attitudes towards links between morality and social and economic inequality. Some of the earliest fictional stories published in Persianlanguage newspapers, in the 1850s, were French. This trend continued, through Iran's Constitutio…
This chapter is about bilingual special education. The joining of bilingual education with special education provides an interesting example of what should not happen in terms of educational reform and evolution (Skrtic 1991; Elmore 1996). However, the flawed interface between bilingual and special education in the United States provides the basis for a unique form of critical dialogue between …
No sane journalist or journalism student wakes up one day and says, "I'm going to model my career after Jayson Blair." Yet the numbers of perpetrators of plagiarism and story fabrication grow as journalists resign or are forced out under suspicion: Robin Gregg at the New York Post, Boston Globe columnist Mike Barnicle and USA Today's Jack Kelley. Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Bragg angrily defende…
History has shown that a vibrant, free press is one of the best ways to ensure a stable democracy. Getting kids involved and interested in journalism, therefore, should be seamless. But the administrators at the East Jordan Public Schools think otherwise.