Author: Matthew Lynch
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Life Skills, Cloud Technology and Branding: K-12 Trends for 2014 — Part I
Even though the traditional K-12 calendar is over, the summer is a time for reflection and goal-setting for educators. The year 2013 has certainly seen a ... -
Diverse Conversations: Is Higher Education Worth It?
Recognizing the trends of higher education is important for those of us who are involved in it on a professional level. But what are the trends? ... -
The Impact of Educational Entrepreneurship on Traditional Public Education
What if there were total free markets in education in the United States, and traditional public education systems as we know them today did not exist? ... -
Why the U.S. College Landscape Still Needs HBCUs
It’s no secret that Black, and other non-white, students in the U.S. have always faced an uphill struggle when it comes to education. Even today, the ... -
Educational Technologies and Concepts that Every Teacher Should Know: Part IV
Click here to read all the pieces in this series. By Matthew Lynch In the first three parts of my five-part series, I discussed educational technologies ... -
Year-Round Schools: How it Affects Teachers
In my last post, I talked about the ways that students are impacted when they are on a year-round school schedule, instead of having traditional summers ... -
Next Generation Science Standards are Smart
Earlier this month California became the seventh state to adopt a new brand set of K-12 science outlines, dubbed Next Generation Science Standards, or NGSS. The ... -
HBCU Closures: A Reversible Trend?
Though their original purpose has evolved, the role of Historically Black Colleges and Universities is still a vital one in America’s education system. As more HBCUs ... -
High School Dropout Rates: A Crisis?
It seems that the phrase high school dropout is often accompanied with the word crisis. Depending who you ask, kids everywhere are giving up on education ... -
Should Bi-Lingual Learning be Required?
This generation of K-12 students is growing up in a society that is increasingly bi-lingual. Foreign language requirements have long been a core requirement for high ...
