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I post this one as a counter to Mr Friedman, and as a guide toward where action research is needed: away from the built-in goals and failures of unchallenged schooling. It is a bit dated, but so is our approach. There's a chapter in one of his books entitled "Research by People" that I'll try to track down and see if it pertains.

No doubt helped by the federal dollars they seem to receive, here is a nice pamphlet from the Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory At Brown University. It explains their approach and model, and includes a couple of informative charts. It also describes two action research projects, one at an elementary school in Lowell and the other at a middle school in Providence.

This is the journal/report of a computer science teacher at a private school who redesigned his classes, moving away from a grades- and information-based model toward an adaptive learning, self-motivating, community-of-scholars, discovery approach. He designed it as an ongoing action-research project for his graduate degree. The narrative is easy to follow and good things happen.