Authentic Intellectual Achievement in Writing

Abstract

what they're writing. These criteria will help us guide those conversations. As facilitators for the project that had brought them together, we listened intently to our teacher-colleagues describe how they planned to incorporate the summer's experiences in their schools and classrooms. The goal of the project was to assess the intellectual quality of writing produced in Chicago's public schools. The teachers had analyzed writing assignments and students' work, using criteria that the authors of this article and Fred New-