Lynch School of Education

Research

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The Lynch School is a community of scholar-practitioners.

Research conducted here is not removed from real life. Indeed, students and faculty members, individually and collectively ask the question, "How can scholarship and knowledge be applied to problems of consequence?"

Addressing the multiple challenges facing children, youth, and families from any single professional perspective has proven to be highly ineffective. The Lynch School is developing an innovative model of problem solving that stresses collaboration rather than competition.

Students and faculty members work with school and community professionals in a team environment. The teams engage in education, community outreach, scholarship, and delivery of services.

As a research institution at the graduate level, the Lynch School is ranked 22nd among schools of education in the nation for 2008, second in New England and the only Catholic university to be ranked in the top 50 (U.S. News).

Boston College is one of only 11 institutions to receive a Teachers for a New Era grant from the Carnegie Corporation. The $5 million grant, to be matched by the University, will support extensive new research efforts at the Lynch School, in collaboration with the College of Arts and Sciences.

In 2006-7, Lynch School faculty members attracted more than $12 million in sponsored research.

Among the research programs underway at the Lynch School is the Early Intervention Collaborative Study, a longitudinal investigation of approximately 190 children with developmental disabilities (Down syndrome, m otor impairment, developmental delay) and their families.

While much research is conducted by individual faculty members and in various research programs, the Lynch School hosts several major research centers.

The School also houses nine prestigious research journals.
• New Window Will OpenJournal of Educational Change
• New Window Will OpenEducational Policy
• New Window Will OpenJournal of Higher Education in Africa
• New Window Will Open Learning Disability Quarterly
• New Window Will OpenTeaching Exceptional Children
• New Window Will OpenTeaching Exceptional Children Plus
• New Window Will OpenJournal of Technology, Learning, and Assessment

Federal and university regulations require that all faculty, staff, and student research projects involving human participants and/or materials of human origin be reviewed and approved by the University Institutional Review Board before initiation. More