2010 News Headlines |
An Eye on The Immaculate
Unique charter school looks to move
into the neighborhood |
South End News
November 15, 2010 |
| “At lunchtime on a recent Friday, it becomes even more obvious this isn’t a typical middle school lunch. There is no yelling or throwing food. In fact, a group of more than 70 students sit silently, eating fish and rice delivered by Community Servings. At least six teachers are in the room, and one of them is reading off the names of the 7th graders who have passed the 8th grade math entry test months early." |
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MIT CSWS Newsletter
Fall, 2010 |
| “MATCH provides me with the patience to endure through tough challenges, helps me explain difficult concepts, and inspires me to teach while helping my community.” Joy also discovered a new academic and work interest; she hopes to take classes in education because of her positive summer experience with MATCH." |
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Time Magazine
October 14, 2010 |
| “Overall, the consistency of performance among the top tier of charter networks as well as many individual schools, including the Preuss School at the University of California San Diego and the MATCH Charter Public School in Boston, helps explain why the Obama Administration awarded $50 million in replication funding for high-quality charters last month.” |
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The Bay State Banner
September 30, 2010 |
| “MATCH School students have also been perennial MCAS stars. MATCH’s 10th graders tied for first place in the state in English with 100 percent scoring proficient or advanced. For the third consecutive year, all MATCH 10th graders scored 90 percent or higher in the proficient or advanced level for all three MCAS tests (Math, English and Science).” |
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Hazard Lights
September 23, 2010 |
| “Everyone at MATCH is 100% committed to achieving the school's goal: create a high performing environment where all students can change the trajectory of their lives by not just going on to college, but by succeeding in college. This vision orients all of the school's activities, just as a unifying vision should orient the activities of your start-up.” |
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The Bay State Banner
September 9, 2010 |
| “I felt like MATCH was a great atmosphere,” Bernal said. “Even though I hated its rules I knew that it was good, that it would prepare me the best for college. I didn’t want to give up on myself,” she continued. “MATCH was a hard school, but I wanted to prove to myself that I could do it.” |
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Education Week
September 1, 2010 |
| “MATCH plans to target mailings to parents who speak a language other than English at home for a new school it has proposed opening in the 2011-12 school year. Though located in immigrant neighborhoods, the middle school and high school already run by MATCH don’t enroll any ELLs because of challenges with recruitment.” |
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The Boston Globe
August 20, 2010 |
| “Safran said his school would provide students with two hours of individual tutoring each day and could serve as a laboratory in the instruction of English language learners for the city’s non-charter public schools.
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The Boston Globe
August 15, 2010 |
| “Alan Safran, executive director of the MATCH school, which runs a high school in Kenmore Square and a middle school in Jamaica Plain, has proposed a new school in Boston for 700 nonnative English-speaking students.'We see ourselves as working with the Boston public schools, not against them,' he said.” |
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AIM Business Insider
July 27, 2010 |
| “The success of MATCH Charter Public School should encourage employers who have supported charter schools as well as the broader idea that all educational institutions must respond to the same measures of success or failure that drive businesses.” |
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Union College Magazine
Summer, 2010 |
| “These students are chosen for their leadership abilities, their skills and motivation. As such, they’ve made positive changes in the way campus organizations they’ve joined are run.” |
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Albany Times-Union
June 14, 2010 |
| “MATCH graduate Antonio Gutierrez was featured in this article on the Posse Foundation and Union College's graduating class of 2010. Antonio will spend the next year as a City Year volunteer before heading to law school.” |
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BBC News
April 14, 2010 |
| “The classrooms are in a converted car dealership on a main road in Boston. Where Lincoln automobiles once stood in the glass showroom, hundreds of parents are crowded, waiting anxiously for a lottery draw that they fervently believe could change their children's lives.” |
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The Washington Post
February 26, 2010 |
| “Ten years ago [Goldstein] founded the MATCH Charter Public High School in Boston, one of the nation's most successful inner-city charters. Like other charter school leaders and Teach For America supervisors, he has been working a long time with the almost frighteningly motivated young people who have jumped into those programs right out of Yale, Georgetown, Stanford, the University of Texas and other selective colleges and universities.” |
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