Conclusion

Unlike many trends in education that have come and gone in recent decades, WAC as a movement appears to have lasted, evolving alongside more than 20 years of changes in educational policy, technology, and ideas about what students should know and be able to do by the time they graduate from high school. Across the country, WAC-based programs in middle and high schools continue to expand and adapt to meet new needs. From online writing centers to expeditionary learning programs, the schools profiled in the following Northwest Sampler represent just a few of the innovative approaches educators in this region are taking to encourage more and better writing beyond the walls of the English classroom.