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EDCL 6352: School as the Center for Inquiry

EDCL 6352 prepares the educational leader to be an intelligent consumer of research and to assume a leadership role in school-wide action research.

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AND: "special education" AND disproportion*

OR:  "low socioeconomic" OR impoverished  

Use Boolean logic to search by keywords and phrases:

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  • OR: male* OR men
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Limit search results by Date and Peer-Reviewed journals.   

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If you come across a citation to an article and you'd like to track down its full text, follow the steps below:

The example below shows that The Journal of Continuing Higher Education is accessible in print/microform as well as online. The entry also shows coverage dates to indicate which years are accessible.