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Mistakes and big mistakes
I’m taking a break from Errata Week here because it was my nephew T.’s bar mitzvah today, and his Torah portion was Noah, the ark, and a certain extreme weather event. I think that story represents enough mistakes for the day, and I’ll continue tomorrow.
Errata week: What to do when you can’t track down a citation?
Back when I was finishing Creating the Dropout (1996), I had an ethical dilemma. I knew I wanted to draw on a short reading I had seen in my anthropology of education course (taken at Penn from Michele Foster some years before). The selection I remembered was a wonderful three-page observation of U.S. graduation ceremonies seen […]
Errata week: acknowledgments omission
Today’s entry is the second in a week of acknowledging professional errors I have made. A few weeks ago I was looking at one of my co-edited volumes, Schools as Imagined Communities, and I noticed something about my chapter on special education and communities. Or, rather, it was what was not there: “This work was […]
Errata week: To be read (yet)
I’m declaring the next week or so to be Errata Week, where I declare a bunch of mistakes I’ve made professionally. One of the obligations of academics is to acknowledge these openly. Since publishers don’t print errata sheets frequently, it’s time to use blogs to do that instead. Today, I’ll start with a list of […]
Errata week: Primary-source misinterpretation
By Sherman Dorn on October 31, 2006
Sorry for the gap in writing about my mistakes: I needed access to my office for today’s entry. In my dissertation, Creating the Dropout (U. Penn, 1992), I wrote the following in a discussion on the silencing of race in the construction of dropping out in the 1960s: In 1962, Georgia’s Deaprtment of Education cosponsored […]
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