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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| About the Editor | |
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| About the Contributors | |
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| Defining Action Research | |
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| Writers Develop Skills Through Collaboration: An Action Research Approach | |
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| Educational Action Research | |
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| Understanding Action Research | |
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| The Unexpected Journey: Renewing Our Commitment to Students Through Educational Action Research | |
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| Action Research: Three Approaches | |
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| Exemplary Project: The Effectiveness of Spalding Instruction for Spelling Performance | |
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| Exemplary Project: The Business Managers' Network: Action Research to Improve Business Capacities of Colorado Charter Schools | |
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| Exemplary Project: Improving Schoolwide Communication Through a New School Web Site: Responsive Action Research | |
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| Implementing Action Research | |
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| Creating a School for David: A Principal's Narrative | |
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| Exemplary Project: Proactive Action Research to Build Leadership for a Charter School's Success | |
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| Exemplary Project: Examining the Impact of External Building Coaches on Teachers | |
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| Exemplary Project: Implementing Strategies to Reduce Dropout Rates of At-Risk Youth in an Online Learning Environment | |
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| Using Action Research to Assess Instruction | |
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| Exemplary Project: Singapore Math: Action Research on a Curriculum Change, Student Achievement, and Teacher Efficacy | |
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| Exemplary Project: Increasing Math Achievement of Title 1 Middle School Students | |
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| Action Research for School Improvement | |
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| Exemplary Project: Action Research on Middle School Mathematics Instruction Differentiated by Student Gender | |
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| What Happens When a School District Supports Action Research | |
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| Exemplary Project: Professional Development as a Tool to Enhance Teacher Quality in Charter Schools | |
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| Using Action Research to Solve Instructional Challenges in Inclusive Elementary School Settings | |
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| Exemplary Project: Math Fact Memorization in a Highly Sequenced Elementary Mathematics Curriculum | |
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| Using Action Research as a Collaborative Process to Enhance Educators' and Families' Knowledge and Skills for Youth With Emotional or Behavioral Disorders | |
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| Exemplary Project: Building Blocks to Healthy Emotions: A Parenting Program to Improve the Emotional Health of Low-Income Children | |
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| Action Research in Action: Curricular Articulation and Integrated Instruction | |
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| Studying Action Research | |
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| Exemplary Project: Initiating a Collaborative Action Research Project: From Choosing a School to Planning the Work on an Issue | |
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| Exemplary Project: Self-Reflection in Essay Writing: An Action Research Project | |
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| Promoting Quality for Teacher Action Research: Lessons Learned From Science Teachers' Action Research | |
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| Schoolwide Action Research: Findings From Six Years of Study | |
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| Ecology and Ethics in Participatory Collaborative Action Research: An Argument for the Authentic Participation of Students in Educational Research | |
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| Index | |