{"id":463,"date":"2006-02-03T10:11:13","date_gmt":"2006-02-03T14:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=463"},"modified":"2006-02-03T10:11:13","modified_gmt":"2006-02-03T14:11:13","slug":"a-preposition-my-kingdom-of-a-preposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=463","title":{"rendered":"A preposition!  My kingdom of a preposition!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;ve been misquoted in the press again, if mildly. <cite>Ed Week<\/cite> reporter Debra Viadero wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/ewdev.edweek.org\/ew\/articles\/2006\/01\/11\/18grad.h25.html\">generally nice article<\/a> about Rob Warren&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/epaa.asu.edu\/epaa\/v14n51\/\">EPAA article comparing different graduation measures<\/a>, and she quoted from an e-mail I had sent her after a misdirected missive (that came to me though intended for someone else).  I had written (in part),<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>My gut sense as an editor and someone who has written before on the topic is that Warren has the best look thus far at the different measures, his idea is a definite if marginal improvement, and that migration continues to be the greatest problem for estimating graduation accurately at the local level.<\/em> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That came out as&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWarren has the best look thus far <\/em><strong>of<\/strong><em> the different measures,\u201d Sherman Dorn, the journal\u2019s editor, said in an e-mail message last week. \u201cHis idea is a definite if marginal improvement.\u201d<\/em> (emphasis added)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At, of&#151;what&#8217;s the difference? It makes me look a little less literate, but it&#8217;s more amusing than anything else. The article is at least 70% correct, so that&#8217;s pretty good for education reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;ve been misquoted in the press again, if mildly. Ed Week reporter Debra Viadero wrote a generally nice article about Rob Warren&#8217;s EPAA article comparing different graduation measures, and she quoted from an e-mail I had sent her after a misdirected missive (that came to me though intended for someone else). I had written [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-comments"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-7t","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}