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Allston-Brighton TAB
December 6, 2002 |
| "Cycle of poverty" and "portfolio diversity" are phrases seldom heard in the same place at the same time, but both are on the lips of faculty and students at the Media and Technology Charter High School on Commonwealth Avenue... |
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WBUR-TV
November 21, 2002
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| As public schools struggle with how to increase their funding, a charter school in Boston has a new approach to fundraising. The Media and Technology Charter High School, or MATCH School, has built a Sprint Wireless store into its new facility... |
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Daily Free Press
November 15, 2002 |
| Most times, it is a disruption when cell phones start ringing in class, but for one Allston-Brighton school, cell phones ringing in class is just part of the education... |
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The Boston Globe
November 10, 2002 |
| It doesn't look like your typical school cafeteria, especially with the big video screen and the line of cafe tables against the wall. But for students from the Media and Technology Charter High School in Boston, lunch period means hitting local restaurants... |
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The Boston Herald
November 10, 2002 |
| If a teenager knows no math and there's no MCAS around to hear him fail, do we still make a sound? In May 2000, Tiffany Shavers finished her career at a Boston middle school by failing the eighth-grade MCAS test in math... |
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Mass High Tech
November 4, 2002 |
| Akamai Technologies has found its match. The Cambridge-based business, through the Akamai Foundation, has donated $100,000 to fund the Media And Technology Charter High School (MATCH), a small public charter school in Boston... |
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Allston-Brighton TAB
October 31, 2002 |
| When students arrive at the MATCH School (Media and Technology Charter High School) every morning, their principal, former teacher of the year Charles Sposato, greets them at the door, and asks them why they are there... |
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The Boston Globe
October 31, 2002 |
| Forget about "Want fries with that?" At their part-time jobs, Boston high school juniors Stesha Emmanuel and Luis Gonzalez are asking, "Want high-speed wireless data service and a national calling plan with that?" |
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The Boston Herald
September 21, 2002 |
| The state's charter schools boasted a greater number of improved scores on the spring MCAS exam, with more and more of the privately run schools scoring higher than their home districts.The most highly touted success stories included... |
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The Daily Free Press
September 20, 2002 |
| The Media and Technology Charter School, previously located in Brookline, has found its new home in the midst of Boston University, at the former site of the famous "Ellis the Rim Man" automotive store... |
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The New York Times
August 9, 2002 |
| There are no formal classes in this summer school, nor any teachers per se. There are instead 60 college students, and each instructs one or two youths... |
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Duke Magazine
May 2002 |
| Boston's Media and Technology Charter High School (MATCH) hardly looks like the high-tech secondary school of the future. Housed for now in the upper floors of the city's oldest synagogue, MATCH is not crammed with flat-screen LCD monitors... |
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The Boston Globe
April 28, 2002 |
| They pulled down the Coca-Cola sign near the end of the Mass. Pike, almost took away Kenmore's Citgo sign, and in a few weeks, the Hollywood-like "Ellis the Rim Man" sign will fall victim to the blowtorch and demolition crane... |
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The Boston Globe
March 2, 2002 |
| After 84 years, Ellis the Rim Man, the landmark auto parts and accessories store with the red roof sign overlooking Commonwealth Avenue in Brighton, has closed out the chrome wheels and the sheepskin seat covers... |
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The Boston Globe
January 20, 2002 |
| The poetry by Robert Herrick was penned in the 17th century, but the subject - is it love or merely lust? - so engaged 10th-graders at the Media and Technology Charter High School in Brookline recently that students passionately argued both sides... |
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