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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Education Next highlights the great success of the Match Corps tutoring program, which has been helping to improve students' academic performance since 2004. The nationally recognized program has been studied by renowned Harvard researchers, leading to its replication in school districts in Houston, Newark, NJ, Lawrence, MA, and Chicago.
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Over the last two years, Match Education has provided math tutoring to two of Lawrence's lowest-performing high schools. With the addition of Match-style tutoring, student performance has significantly increased.
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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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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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Tom Kane's article is an insightful analysis of the state of teacher preparation and a convincing case for innovation in and rigorous evaluation of approaches to teacher preparation.
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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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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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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.
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