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""why isn't johnny in preschool?" was a project conducted by chicago's community organizing and family issues group that was aimed at determining why families in lower-income, racially diverse neighborhoods in chicago were less likely than other families to enroll their children in early educational programs. the findings were used to design outreach and public awareness campaigns. this type of research project is called"

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These types of research projects are what we call action research. Action research is employed usually to address a specific and immediate problem or it is used as a part of a larger projects which are designed to improve and enhance the ways a group or community deal with the issues at hand and how they do solve those issues.

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