OUR APARTHEID: WRITING INSTRUCTION & INEQUALITY

<p>The first appointment in rhetoric and composition to the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, Ira Shor is the teacher-scholar chiefly responsible for giving currency and meaning to the term ″critical teaching″ in such works as Critical Teaching and Everyday life (1980), Empowering Education (3992), and When Students Have Power (2996). Also author of critiques of educational policy and social conditions affecting education, notably the book Culture Wars (1986), he brings the two strands of his work together in this discussion of the social contexts of basic writing and freshman composition. His call for an end to remedial placement, first made at the CBW workshop, elaborated on the discussion list CBW-L, led the editors to send him some questions to address, if he chose. Developing from that e-mail exchange, his response eventually became this carefully argued and researched essay.</p>