The first edition of Classroom Publishing was written in 1992 by Laurie King and Dennis Stovall. In 2001 Dennis Stovall founded Ooligan Press, the premier student-run publishing house in the United States, and he relied on the concepts of Classroom Publishing when designing the curriculum and structure of the master's in publishing program at Portland State University. As a project from the classroom, the second edition was written and produced by the students of Ooligan Press.