Educational Research I Want to Read

I am currently sitting in a graduate course titled: EDF 689 Methods and Teaching of Educational Research offered by SUNY College at Buffalo in Bangkok, Thailand.  I am one course away from a second Master's degree which I am fairly excited about.  That being said, I personally hate doing research.  But I feel pretty passionate about ePortfolios and I am attempting to practice what I preach to my students everyday:

Always find a way to make your learning personal.  

So since I already know what I plan to do, here are my ideas for everyone else thinking about doing research: 

• Look at the attitudes of parents to technology in the classroom-what role does technology play in their lives (i.e. Do they blog, Facebook, Twitter?)  What are they really so afraid of?
• What technology tools are teachers finding the most useful/least useful in their classrooms?
• What is the correlation of GPA scores for college freshman compared to students that were full IB diploma candidates?
• What are the real attitudes and perceptions of parents, teachers and students about homework?  Look at HS, MS and ES.
• Do teachers that give more homework more or less effective teachers?
• How does class size relate to learning?
• How does the educational background of the teacher correlate to student achievement?
• Are international schools more technologically advanced than stateside schools?
• How can technology or curriculum coaches be better utilized during the school day?
• What independent reading programs are working at different grade levels?

What are you passionate about?  Is there any research to back up your beliefs?  Become the research educators rely on to prove we know what we are talking about when it comes to educating the future.