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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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.
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To read more about the randomized trial conducted by the National Bureau of Economic Research, click here.
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.
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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.
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In the US News and World Report opinion section, Match Teacher Residency is highlighted as a successful teacher prep program that "attracts talent through its after school tutoring program and relies on intense coaching, role-plays and ongoing assessments."
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The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools recently highlighted seven of the top charter schools in the country and the specific ways in which each school addresses the question, "What does it take to prepare students for college, get them accepted, and make sure they are successful once there?" Match Education was featured as one of the seven schools, as well as on the network's Facebook page.
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Match Community Day principal, Kate Carpenter Bernier, spoke with Peter Shanley of the Jamaica Plain Gazette about the high MCAS scores our third graders received this past year. She credits this success to the school's structure and the Match Corps tutoring program.
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