ABSTRACT
In 2009, United States Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced that the federal government would devote $3.5 billion in funding to an initiative targeting the nation's lowest-achieving public schools. One of the most innovative efforts of the Roosevelt High School Writing and Publishing Center involved its decision to establish the Freedom Fighters Project. The two functions ultimately led to a university–community partnership that would include an example of community-engaged teaching at Portland State University. Accordingly, the particular university–community partnership will continue to serve as an example of community-engaged teaching with a focus on cultural sustainability. To initiate this collaboration, Stovall taught a graduate-level class titled "Practicum in Classroom Publishing" in the summer of 2012. The concept of classroom publishing was developed by Stovall over many years, resulting from his desire to "help teachers understand publishing and how it might be best used by them or their students".
