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 […]
Book progress pleasurable but costly
I have one paragraph left before I finish the third chapter of Accountability Frankenstein. Unfortunately for my sanity and time, I think I’ll be reading the equivalent of 3-4 books to write that paragraph (international perspectives on curriculum decision-making). But I’m quite happy with how the chapter ended. I’ve divided our education woes into three […]
On standards, the curriculum, and acorns
One of my frustrations with some types of education policy writing is its irritatingly acontextual nature, as if nothing but that era (usually This Era) and the conceptualization in use at the time (i.e., a particular buzzword) is relevant for the question at hand. The writing-that-frustrates-Dorn can often be very detailed, accurate, and descriptive, but […]
Errata week: What to do when you can’t track down a citation?
By Sherman Dorn on October 27, 2006
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 […]
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