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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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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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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