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The authors look at some dual enrollment students who were not success stories.

Five years after our original study on fourteen- and fifteen-year-old dual enrollment students, this article explores the implications of dual enrollment by returning to one of the original study participants to assess the impact on writing performance, writing practices, and her life more generally.

This article draws data from a participant-observation study that considers fourteen-and fifteen-year-old-dual enrollment students and gauges the impact of their attendance in a section of first-year composition on them, on other students, and on curricular rigor.

This article explores the efforts of an instructor of at-risk students to implement into her course a generative theme that urged students to explore the conditions of their admittance as provisional students.

Students in college writing courses need to understand world issues, including the oppressive effects of the global economy. But their teachers need to give them a sense of agency and authority, rather than simply telling them what political positions to take. One example of a writing assignment that might engage as well as inform students involves analyzing Parade magazine’s annual list of the world’s worst dictators.

Russel Durst has written a commentary on “Understanding Problems in Critical Classrooms” by William Thelin, published in September 2005; I have invited William Thelin to respond. The full text of the original article is also available at http://inventio.us/ccc.

Some scholarship suggests that critical pedagogy should be abandoned for more pragmatic goals. While the democratic and political sensibilities of critical pedagogy require more from the instructor, classrooms that on the surface do not appear to work in teaching students should not be seen as signs that the pedagogy is not worth the extra effort. The classroom experience recounted in this piece suggests that blundered implementation can function as an opportunity to advance knowledge and to understand the ongoing project of critical pedagogy, strengthening it even as we realize that critical pedagogy cannot look and feel like status quo teaching and still enact progressive goals.

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John Trimbur, Robert G. Wood, Ron Strickland, William H. Thelin, William J. Rouster, Toni Mester, Maxine Hairston, Responses to Maxine Hairston, "Diversity, Ideology, and Teaching Writing" and Reply, College Composition and Communication, Vol. 44, No. 2 (May, 1993), pp. 248-256