One World Education (OWEd) is a college-ready writing instruction program with the goal to ultimately have students participate in their own discourse communities. This qualitative analysis of One World Education reports on student and teacher impressions of the program by analyzing the results of surveys, informal interviews, and focus groups the authors conducted. The results provide a window into the difficulties and successes teachers, students, and administrators face in finding solutions to teaching writing within the framework of the Common Core State Standards.