Yearly Archives: 2025

By Matthew Lynch, Ed.D. The Parent Teacher Association (PTA) represents a critical collaborative framework that bridges educational institutions and family communities, creating essential partnerships that support student success. As an educational researcher with extensive experience in school-community relationships, I’ve observed how PTAs serve as vital conduits for communication, support, and collective educational advocacy. Established in…

By Matthew Lynch, Ed.D. The National Education Association (NEA) stands as one of the most influential educational organizations in the United States, representing a complex institutional framework that shapes educational policy, professional development, and advocacy for educators nationwide. As an educational researcher with extensive experience in educational policy and professional organizations, I’ve observed the NEA’s…

Graduation rate has emerged as perhaps the most ubiquitous—and simultaneously one of the most misunderstood—metrics in contemporary educational assessment. As a fundamental indicator of institutional effectiveness, graduation rates influence everything from school funding allocations to public perception of educational quality. However, the apparent simplicity of this metric masks significant complexities in definition, calculation, and interpretation…

By Dr. Matthew Lynch, Ed.D. In the vast landscape of educational assessment and literacy instruction, the Cloze procedure stands as a unique and powerful tool for understanding reading comprehension, language proficiency, and cognitive processing. As an educational researcher who has extensively studied literacy assessment techniques, I’ve found the Cloze procedure to be an invaluable method…