In this collaborative sense-making of mentorship and interconnected guidance for education research, two Black women academics in special education offer lessons learned from their sustained dialogues with each other, other Black women, and with Black and endarkened feminists' texts. The authors reflect on how traditional approaches to academic…

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to argue that writing center workers provide a model for reversing the new racism. Methodology: An examination of writing center practices (dialogue and conversation) as well as practices offered by thinkers outside of the writing center (collaborative learning and laboratory learning) is presented. Results:…

Compares textual notes taken by seventh-grade students on the 1954 school desegregation case, "Brown v. Board of Education," to those taken by legal professionals. Shows that the students rejected what they saw as violations of conventions of Supreme Court argument, while the winning argument in the actual case plays with conventions by…