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In crisp, jargon-free prose, Ruth Shagoury Hubbard and Brenda Miller Power present the nuts and bolts of classroom research strategies - interviewing and notetaking techniques, methods for categorizing data, online support, hands-on activities for testing research methods and honing skills, plus much more. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Hubbard and Power have worked for 15 years with teacher-researchers from across the country. In \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Classroom Inquiry\u003c\/i\u003e they give teacher research a human face, from preservice and beginning teachers at work in their classrooms to veterans with suggestions and examples to share. The stories of individual growth demonstrate why and how teacher research is transforming the ways teachers view themselves and their classrooms. 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