In some projects, there was a clear concern for moral and political issues of teaching. Our best example of this is an action research project by Jo.
Her focus on ability grouping and standardized testing grew out of the discomfort she felt about differences with her cooperating teacher over style of teaching, methods of grading. and general beliefs about education. Working with a “low ability” reading group (in a grade five classroom), Jo was concerned about the dislike for reading and the failure on standardized tests that characterized these students.