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Dr. Tyrone Bynoe
Assistant Professor of Education
Dr. Bynoe’s educational training features a B.A. in American History (1978), M.A. in European History (1985)*, M.S. Ed. in Educational Administration and Policy Studies (1990), and a 2 nd M.A. in American History (1992). He earned these four degrees at the University of Albany (N.Y.). Dr. Bynoe, then, earned an Ed.D. in Educational Administration at Teachers College-Columbia University in February, 2004. Additionally, Dr. Bynoe completed graduate courses in Special Education when P.L. 94-142 first allocated federal funds to public schools for classified students during the 1978-1979 school year. Dr. Bynoe has a rich background in supervisory and pedagogical practice. He has been a public school-administrator in various assignments involving grades K to 12. These assignments included Principal, Assistant Principal, Director of Instructional Services, and Director of Special Education. He has also been a classroom teacher of History and the Social Studies. Dr. Bynoe’s first professional assignment occurred in a secondary Christian-Day School as a Social Studies Teacher. Along with a full-load of social studies classes, Dr. Bynoe taught classes in Bible and Physical Education. Subsequent to this assignment, Dr. Bynoe taught every course in the Social Studies grades 7 through 12 at all ability levels in the hometown of Uncle Sam (the symbol of our nation’s fiscal policy). Dr. Bynoe has been affiliated with numerous professional associations including, but not limited to, the National Association of Secondary School Principals, National Association of Elementary School Principals, International Confederation of Principals, National Council for the Social Studies, American Education Finance Association, and the Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development. During the 2005-2006 school year, Dr. Bynoe will likely resume affiliation with the NASSP, ICP, and maintain membership in or an affiliation with AEFA, ASCD, American Education Research Association, and the Kentucky Supervisory Association. Dr. Bynoe’s academic interests are in school-finance, effective-schools, teacher quality, organizational behavior, public school supervision, educational history, and computer applications. Outside of education disciplines, Dr. Bynoe has a unique command of diplomatic and global history from 1936 to the present. Dr. Bynoe arrived to University of the Cumberlands as a seasoned educator with a purposeful research agenda. * The first MA is officially in Social Studies since University @ Albany’s regulations disallows the conferral of two MAs in History. Nevertheless, the course work of this degree is in European History.
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Courses Taught: EDAD 633* Applied Research in Education EDAD 634* Business Management in Public Schools EDAD 635 School and Community Relations EDUC 532 Educational Technology EDUC 538* The Modern Secondary School EDUC 633 Instructional Leadership and Technology EDUC 636* Problems In Education Although Dr. Bynoe is able to teach several courses, the asterisk (*) reflects courses of this professor’s interests and specialization. Dr. Bynoe teaches courses both on-site and on-line. Association Memberships: past and current association memberships include, but are not limited to the following: American Education Finance Association (AEFA)* American Education Research Association (AERA*) Association of School and Curriculum Development (ASCD)* International Confederation of Principals (ICP)** International Society of Technology in Education (ISTE)* Kentucky Association of School Administrations (KASA) – strongly considering membership affiliation. National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP)** National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP)** National Council of Social Studies (NCSS) New York State Council for the Social Studies (NYSCSS) School Administrators Association of New York State (SAANYS) Conferences Attended during the 2004-2005 School Year: American Education Finance Association (AEFA)* - March, 2005 – Louisville, KY Association of School and Curriculum Development (ASCD)* - April, 2005 – Orlando, FL. F.D. Patterson Conference – September, 2004 – Washington, D.C. Fourth Annual Teacher Quality Summit – October, 2004 – Bowling Green, KY International Society of Technology in Education (ISTE)* -- June, 2005 – Philadelphia, PA Kentucky Association of School Administrators (KASA) – July, 2005 – Louisville, KY LEAP – Wallace Foundation – April, 2005 – Louisville, KY On-Line Course Writing and Review: Applied-Research in Education (or EDAD 633) – The Learning House, Louisville, KY
Planned Paper Presentations and Research Trips 1. American Education Finance Association (March, 2006) – New Orleans, LA 2. American Education Research Association (April, 2006) – San Francisco, CA 3. Proficiency, 06 (March, 2006). Louisville, KY. Planned Paper Presentation: An Exploratory Analysis of the Relationship Between School Spending and Student Performance in Kentucky’s Public Schools. 4. National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) – site and date not yet determined. 5. SETT and Staff Development in Action-Research (September, 2005) – Glasgow, Scotland Current Research Topics: Dr. Bynoe shall pursue the following research agenda. This research agenda shall result in a number of published papers by the end of the 2006 calendar year. 1. Ensuing Research stemming from dissertation on Operational Adequacy 2. The Origins of Action Research in the United Kingdom 3. Contrasting Analysis between Local Management of Schools and School Based Budgeting 4. The Efficacy of Resource Allocation when considering the role of the County Commissioner in Tennessee Public Schools 5. An Exploratory Analysis of the Relationship Between School Spending and Student Performance in Kentucky’s Public Schools. Supervision of ongoing research projects in graduate courses, especially that of Applied Research. Interests: Research, traveling, sports (especially golf nowadays), and ministry.
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