Dr. Matthew Lynch is Chair of the Department of Elementary and Special Education and an Associate Professor of Education at Langston University . His scholarship is intended to make a redoubtable, theoretically and empirically based argument that school reform and the closing of the well-chronicled achievement gap are possible.

You can follow Matthew on his daily blog by Edweek called "Education Futures: Emerging Trends and Technologies in K-12" http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/education_futures/