Errata week: Primary-source misinterpretation
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 […]
New paper on attainment using census records
My fall conference paper for the Social Science History Association, Long-Term Educational Attainment Trends in the US: A New Look (2.0 MB), is available as a working paper. Lots of small-multiples. I’m sure there are lots of omissions and errors. (Feel free to point them out in comments!) The text is fairly bare-bones, because of […]
Truck Exhaust, Asthma, and Education
Today’s NY Times has a story, Study Links Truck Exhaust To Schoolchildren’s Asthma, which describes a study of NYU’s George Thurston, among other researchers, who sent 10 public-school students in the Bronx around with equipment-stuffed backpacks. Not surprisingly, the pollutants from the diesel trucks on the expressways, in the large Bronx markets, and on the clogged roads […]
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: mundane typo
By Sherman Dorn on October 31, 2006
I’ll end Errata Week here on the blog by noting one embarrassing typo in Creating the Dropout (Praeger, 1996): Changes in the proportion of nineteen-year-olds dependent on relatives cannot account for the drop; a higher proportion was dependent in 1980 (86 percent) than in 1970 or 1980 (80 and 81 percent, respectively). (p. 20) This is […]
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