Dr. Matthew Lynch

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Location

Langston, Oklahoma, USA

Birthday

December 31

Title

Professor

Company

Langston University

Bio

Dr. Lynch is a Chair and Associate Professor of Education at Langston University. He spent seven years as a K-12 teacher, which gave him an intimate view of the impediments that hinder genuine education reform. He has focused the second stage of his career on researching topics related to educational policy, school leadership and education reform, particularly in the urban learning environment. His writings regular appear in the Huffington Post, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, Education Week, and Education World. Dr. Lynch’s scholarship is intended to make a redoubtable, theoretically and empirically based argument that genuine school reform and the closing of the well-chronicled achievement gap are possible. His research and commentaries have been featured in publications throughout the United States and have centered on issues ranging from school reform to politics. Throughout his career, he has been interested in developing collaborative enterprises that move the field of education forward. Dr. Lynch is the author of It’s Time for a Change: School Reform for the Next Decade, the newly released A Guide to Effective School Leadership Theories, the forthcoming The Call to Teach: An Introduction to Education (Pearson, January 11, 2014), and Pass or Fail in America's Schools: How Social Promotion and Academic Retention are Destroying Public Education (Praeger, November 2014). In addition, he is the editor of the following projects; Before Obama: A Reappraisal of Black Reconstruction Era Politicians (Praeger, October 31, 2012), the book series Studies in Anti-Intellectualism and Academic Disengagement (Rowman & Littlefield), and a forthcoming book entitled Reimagining School Reform and Innovation (Sense, 2014). Please visit his website at www.drmattlynch.com for more information.