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In the News Headlines |
2006 Headlines |
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December, 2006, Dartmouth Life |
| From teachers, tutors, and volunteers, to the school's new principal, there are signs of Dartmouth everywhere at MATCH, a new Boston school whose purpose is to transform young people on the verge of failure into college-bound high school seniors...
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November 17, 2006, Mass High Tech |
| Anthony Trotman, 16, wants to study computer science in college. On a recent November evening, the Dorchester teenager is tucked in a corner of his high school hallway, tapping on a laptop, pondering a summer internship at EMC Corp...
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September 27, 2006, WBZ Newsradio 1030 |
| As a middle schooler, Luis Brooks failed math and barely passed English. Two years into the MATCH Charter school here in Brighton, his MCAS scores have jumped 30 points, well into the proficient range, and getting here hasn't been easy.
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September 27, 2006, The Boston Herald |
| Lut Celestin wants to make one thing clear: Going to MATCH Charter Public High School was not her idea. It was her mother's. But, after more than two years at the Brighton school, she can't complain.
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September 6, 2006, The Boston Herald |
| Instead of black families fighting for access to good schools, how about good schools fighting to enroll black families?
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May 2006, The Boston Globe |
| For local artist Tova Speter, it's more than another item on her laundry list of artwork throughout the city. ...
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Afterschool specialists -- These tutors give a boost to students' grades and to themselves |
April 2006, The Boston Globe |
| With their easy, teasing banter, Crismel Calderon and Sheetal Shah could be sisters or schoolmates as they sit side by side, hunting through a thesaurus for the right word to describe a character in Gloria Naylor's novel, "The Women of Brewster Place." ...
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April 2006, The Boston Herald |
| Imagine that the Yankees asked the Red Sox to "join them" - and let George Steinbrenner run both teams. After all, it'd be in the Yankees' best interests. But would elimination of friendly competition benefit the fans? A new proposal (read: PR ploy) to fold independent charter public schools into the Boston Public School district as pilot schools is no different. ...
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March 2006, MetroWest Daily News |
| The teacher has learned many lessons since November 12. He's learned the pain like "30 bee stings at once," and how much he misses the taste of chocolate cake. |
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February 2006, The Daily Free Press |
| Remember high school? Class all day, then sports and clubs, then homework and WB shows until bedtime. Well, the students at the MATCH School on Commonwealth Avenue, smack in the middle of the Boston University campus, are going to have a very different memory of their secondary education. ... |
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February 2006, The Boston College Heights |
| The Media and Technology Charter High (MATCH) School, founded six years ago, houses just 185 students on the corner of Babcock Street and Commonwealth Avenue. Unlike any other publicly funded school, the high school has a dynamic tutoring program called MATCH Corps that boasts six Boston College alumni who function in the same way as full-time staffers. ... |
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January 2006, MetroWest Daily News |
| It comes up every now and then. A student at the Media and Technology Charter High School in Boston reads about the Challenger space shuttle and notices something familiar. "This Sposato guy. You know him?" Yes, the principal knows him. Sees him every day in the mirror. |
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