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. As a professor of education, he is, first and foremost, committed to developing outstanding K-12 teachers and is enthusiastically dedicated to improving education in K-12 settings. Dr. Lynch believes that the most effective way to better the conditions of public school students is to provide them with teachers who have a high skill level in both content and pedagogy, since it is clear that teacher quality is a significant factor in student achievement. His teaching philosophy is grounded in inquiry and mutual scholarship, in which all of his classes are transformed into societies of pedagogues and pupils.
He has focused the second stage of his career on researching topics related to education reform, the achievement gap, and teacher education. His research is intended to make a redoubtable, theoretically and empirically based argument that education reform and the closing of the well-chronicled achievement gap are possible. It also posits that improving teacher education is an essential component if we are to achieve true education reform and substantially close the achievement gap. By intersecting the aforementioned issues that are usually considered and researched separately, his research supplies an astute understanding of the interaction among teacher education, the achievement gap, and the ubiquitous nature of education reform. Throughout Dr. Lynch's career, he has been interested in developing collaborative enterprises that move the field of education forward.
His articles and op eds regularly appear in the Huffington Post, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, Education Week, and Education World. Dr. Lynch has written numerous peer-reviewed articles, which have appeared in academic journals such as AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, International Journal of Progressive Education, Academic Leadership Journal, etc. 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.
He has focused the second stage of his career on researching topics related to education reform, the achievement gap, and teacher education. His research is intended to make a redoubtable, theoretically and empirically based argument that education reform and the closing of the well-chronicled achievement gap are possible. It also posits that improving teacher education is an essential component if we are to achieve true education reform and substantially close the achievement gap. By intersecting the aforementioned issues that are usually considered and researched separately, his research supplies an astute understanding of the interaction among teacher education, the achievement gap, and the ubiquitous nature of education reform. Throughout Dr. Lynch's career, he has been interested in developing collaborative enterprises that move the field of education forward.
His articles and op eds regularly appear in the Huffington Post, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, Education Week, and Education World. Dr. Lynch has written numerous peer-reviewed articles, which have appeared in academic journals such as AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, International Journal of Progressive Education, Academic Leadership Journal, etc. 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.
