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Press Release: Andrew Balson Joins Match Beyond

Match Beyond, a division of Match Education that provides personal coaching and job placement services to high school graduates and GED-recipients seeking Associate's and Bachelor's degrees from Southern New Hampshire University’s College for America, today announced that Andrew Balson has joined the organization as Chief Executive Officer. In this role, Mr. Balson will lead the startup organization’s committed team with experience in education, workforce development, and coaching in empowering low-income young adults to earn their college degrees and prepare for and obtain middle class employment.

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Smartest kids: Massachusetts charter schools are few but mighty

Match Charter Public School is highlighted as one of the top schools in Massachusetts in a recent article published by Bridge Magazine at The Center for Michigan.  The article's author, Chastity Pratt, compares Michigan's current charter school system to that of Massachusetts's, whose whole education system has been top-ranked nationally over the last decade.

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Out of grief, a new resolve for one valedictorian

As the valedictorian of Match High School's class of 2014, Brittany Washum-Bennett has had to overcome great personal obstacles to reach this point in her life.  Over the weekend, The Boston Globe highlighted Brittany's journey as the cover story in the Metro section.  She will be attending UMass, Amherst this fall where she will major in chemistry with plans to attend medical school in the future.

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Duncan says Mass. can't be complacent about education

After his visit to Match on March 12th, Secretary Duncan said in an interview with the Globe that with the limited number of seats available in Boston charter schools, we need to start providing more options for the high demand of parents seeking to enroll their children in these successful schools. According to Duncan, the legislative decision to lift the charter cap should not rely solely on the issue of funding reimbursement for district schools who lose students to charter schools.

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Why half of urban kids drop out

This week Match Education was highlighted in a CNN Opinion piece for the work of Match Tutors in Chicago Public Schools. The article suggests that the results of last year's randomized trial by the University of Chicago Urban Education Lab indicate a need for an intensive and individualized academic support program "to help prevent students who start falling behind from falling completely through the cracks."  The authors also suggest that Match's tutoring success proves that it's not too late to help disadvantaged youth once they've reached adolescence.

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Tutoring & Mentoring Show Significant Results for High School Students

This week the news program, Chicago Tonight spotlighted the work of Match Tutors and Youth Guidance in Chicago Public Schools to reduce the absentee, violence, and dropout rates of young at-risk males through mentoring and tutoring programs. The Youth Guidance mentoring program, B.A.M.--Becoming A Man--was highlighted in President Obama's announcement of a new initiative "aimed specifically at helping young men of color to improve their chronically lower rates of literacy and higher rates of unemployment and criminal trouble." The initiative is called My Brother's Keeper.

Click here to watch the 8 minute clip from Chicago Tonight.

Match-ing Students with Excellent Tutors

The Pioneer Institute of Public Policy Research released a detailed paper on the effectiveness of the Match Corps tutoring program. The research suggests that "high-dosage" tutoring should be a central part in both school and district turnaround efforts because it is more cost-effective than reduced class sizes and extended school days. The press release highlights the most effective components of the Match Corps and why it has been such a successful program in the last ten years.

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To read the full Pioneer Institute paper, click here.

Match-ing Students to Excellent Teachers

The Pioneer Institute of Public Policy Research released a detailed paper on the effectiveness of the Match Teacher Residency program. The research suggests that our teacher preparation program is a possible solution to the shortage of high-quality teachers and therefore, ought to be a model for other charter schools, district schools, and traditional schools of education.

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To read the full Pioneer Institute paper, click here.

Match Program Closing The Achievement Gap For CPS Students

Chicago's Mayor Emanuel, in conjunction with the University of Chicago, issued a press release today, highlighting the initial success of Match's tutoring program in 12 distressed Chicago public high schools. After just six months, the black-white test gap on the NAEP math exams closed by two-thirds, and student misconduct dropped by 67%.

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Intensive Small-Group Tutoring and Counseling Helps Struggling Students

Match Tutors makes headlines in The New York Times for its tutoring work in Chicago Public Schools.  As part of a two-year randomized trial through the University of Chicago Urban Education Lab, Match Tutors is providing math tutoring to 700 at-risk male students in 12 of the city's lowest performing high schools.  Along with tutoring, the students are also receiving behavioral counseling through a Youth Guidance program called B.A.M., Becoming a Man. Through these interventions, researchers hope to decrease the likelihood that these students drop out and fall into the destructive cycle of violence and crime that plagues so many of Chicago's young African-American males.

Read the full article here.

To read more about the randomized trial conducted by the National Bureau of Economic Research, click here.

Emanuel vows to expand promising program that combines math tutoring and mentoring

In response to the stunning results of a report published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, Chicago's Mayor Rahm Emanuel says that he will expand a current tutoring and mentoring program to include 1,000 male students in 12 Chicago Public Schools.  The report focused on the 106 students at Harper High School who have learned in eight months what an average American high school students takes three years to learn.  These students, along with the other 600 currently in the program, receive math tutoring facilitated by Match Tutors as well as emotional and counseling support through Youth Guidance's BAM program.

Read the full article here.

Is algebra the key to keeping boys in school and off the streets?

In a recent segment on Al-Jazeera America, Match Tutors was spotlighted for its current work in Chicago Public Schools, tutoring hundreds of at-risk young males in freshmen algebra. Match was hired by the University of Chicago to provide the academic services for a two-year randomized controlled trial facilitated by the university's Urban Education Lab.

Read the full article here.