In early May, a group of journalists attending the Education Writers Association conference hosted at BU, visited Match High School. Erin Richards of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel wrote about her experience in a blog for EWA, in which she highlights Match Education as "a laboratory and demonstration site to tinker with the chemical compounds for closing the achievement gap ."
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The Match Foundation, Inc., part of Match Education, has been awarded a continuation of its National AmeriCorps tutoring program by the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), the federal agency that administers AmeriCorps programs.
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Match Beyond was mentioned in a Boston Globe Magazine article that highlights the difficulty students face in requesting their college transcripts in order to transfer schools due to financial hardship. This situation leaves students unable to apply already paid-for credits towards a future degree at another institution. Many Match Beyond students have experienced this issue first-hand and have since completed their degree through College For America at little to no additional cost.
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The Sposato Graduate School of Education was recently featured in the cover story of The Economist magazine, called "Teaching the teachers." The article highlights alternative schools of education, like Sposato, as a necessary ed reform for improving student outcomes because they provide real-world experience to teacher trainees through hours of practice teaching and high-grade feedback.
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Education Post by Tracy Dell'Angela
After her recent visit to Match High School while attending the Education Writers Association conference in Boston, Tracy Dell'Angela wrote about Match as an organization committed to "tackling some of the most intractable and universal problems in education today."
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The 74 Million by Scott McCue and Orin Gutlerner
Co-Directors of The Charles Sposato Graduate School of Education (CSGSE), Scott McCue and Orin Gutlerner wrote an OpEd published by The 74 Million on the need for non-traditional teacher preparation programs and how already-existing programs in Massachusetts, like CSGSE, are leading the way.
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The Hechinger Report by Ray Schleck
In an OpEd for The Hechinger Report, Match Next principal Ray Schleck describes the Match Next model as an innovative and effective means for differentiating curriculum to meet more students' needs. In one grade at Match Next, there are three master teachers overseeing 30 tutors (all recent-college-grad AmeriCorps members), who work with 100 students. This allows master teachers to focus on three things: train and coach tutors, develop curriculum, and work with students (individually and by leading class discussion).
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Relinquishment by Neerav Kingsland
Neerav Kingsland, a Senior Education Fellow at the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, recently posted on his blog about Match Beyond as an innovator trying to answer two important questions in higher ed reform: 1) how do we increase degree attainment rates for low income students? and 2) how do we make colleges more effective?
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The New York Times by Anemona Hartocollis
In January, NYT writer Anemona Hartocollis visited Match High School to talk with students and staff members about the new SAT. Chief among the test's changes are longer and harder reading passages and more words in math problems. The shift is leading some educators and college admissions officers to fear that the revised test will penalize students who have not been exposed to a lot of reading, or who speak a different language at home — like immigrants and the poor.
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University of Chicago Magazine by Maya Dukmasova
On a sunny Tuesday morning in early June, with the end of the school year already palpable, three girls were hard at work in a Chicago Vocational Center Academy classroom. The Chicago Public Schools high school is a sprawling Art Deco building on the southernmost edge of Avalon Park, on the South Side of Chicago. About 98 percent of its students are African American, and nearly 94 percent come from low-income families.
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New York Times by Susan Dynarksi
Charter schools are controversial. But are they good for education?
Rigorous research suggests that the answer is yes for an important, underserved group: low-income, nonwhite students in urban areas. These children tend to do better if enrolled in charter schools instead of traditional public schools.
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News release
The Sposato Graduate School of Education (SGSE) at Match Education is part of a new national center – called TeacherSquared—that will be dedicated to transforming the way new teachers are prepared to teach U.S. public school students. The center is one of three new centers that received funding through a new initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Click here to read the Education Week article that details the other four grantees to receive funding through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's new $34 million investment to improve teacher-preparation programs' overall effectiveness.
New Profit, a nonprofit venture philanthropy fund working to break down the barriers standing between people and opportunity in America, is investing $1 million over the next four years to support Match Education. The investment in Match will be a part of New Profit’s Reimagine School Systems (RSS) Fund (RSS) Fund, a cross-sector collaboration aimed at significantly and rapidly increasing the number of high performing schools serving low income students by transforming the way school systems work and lifting up successful school models that can scale across the country.
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The Match Foundation, Inc. was recently awarded 186 AmeriCorps Member positions through the 2015 AmeriCorps State and National Grant Competition.
The AmeriCorps Members will provide high-dosage, small group tutoring to low-income students attending public schools. They will also foster family engagement through weekly communication with parents and guardians.
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Co-founder and Executive Director of Education for the Clayton Christensen Institute, Michael Horn recently published an article in the Leadership section of Forbes on Match Beyond, our newest innovation aimed at achieving unprecedented college graduation rates and employment outcomes for low-income high school graduates in Boston.
Horn says that the most intriguing thing about Match Beyond compared to other online, competency-based providers is the "no excuses" mindset that our coaches use to push students to succeed. This is the same "no excuses" mindset that has governed Match's high-performing preK-12 charter schools for the last 15 years. Horn believes that this mix of individual support, affordability, and flexibility is what sets Match Beyond apart from other disruptive higher education upstarts.
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On March 27th, The Boston Globe featured a story on Match's newest innovation called Match Beyond. As an alternative hybrid college model, Match Beyond aims to significantly increase the college completion rates of low-income students, as well as to help them find middle class employment after obtaining their degree(s).
Match Beyond is partnering with Southern New Hampshire University's College For America, whose competency-based, online platform is much more accessible (and affordable) to these students for whom traditional college was not a good fit. Of the 47 students who began the program last year, almost all are still enrolled and working with the Match Beyond team to complete their degree(s). And of those still enrolled, four students already have completed their Associate's degree and moved onto the Bachelor's program.
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The New York Times recently ran an article highlighting the great success of Match's tutoring work in Chicago public high schools. The article's author, David Kirp wrote, "These are staggering results -- I know of no initiative for disadvantaged young men of color that comes close."
Over the last year, Match has provided math tutoring to 1,300 young males in 12 Chicago public high schools as part of a study conducted by the University of Chicago's Urban Education and Crime Lab. This is the third instance in which Match has implemented a high-dosage tutoring program in a district setting.
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The University of Chicago's Urban Education and Crime Lab released a report on the first-year data from their study conducted in Chicago public high schools. In the study, Match Education has been providing math tutoring to 1,300 students in 12 Chicago Public Schools.
On average, students that received Match tutoring and mentoring increased their math learning gains by 1-2 years more than the control group, and their test scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress math exam reduced the black-white test score gap by a third. Furthermore, the tutoring also reduced math course failure rates by 50%, and overall course failure rates by 25%.
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Over the last two years, Match Education has partnered with Chicago Public Schools and economists at The University of Chicago's Urban Education and Crime Lab to field and evaluate Match-style high-dosage tutoring for 1,300 boys in 12 Chicago high schools. The results are now in from the first year, which were recently highlighted in The New York Times.
On average, students that received Match tutoring and mentoring increased their math learning gains by 1-2 years more than the control group, and their test scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress math exam reduced the black-white test score gap by a third. Furthermore, the tutoring also reduced math course failure rates by 50%, and overall course failure rates by 25%.
In his article, David Kirp illustrates how the lives of these adolescents can be turned around with these tutoring and mentoring interventions.
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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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