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<td>Fwd: MATCH Corps program</td>
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<td>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 12:52:49 -0800</td>
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<blockquote type="cite" class="cite" cite="">My name is Justin Sallis
and I am the director of recruiting for the
MATCH Corps, a service year program in urban education. The MATCH
Corps is a unique feature of the MATCH Charter Public High School in
Boston, MA. Briefly, the MATCH School is an open-admissions public
charter high school serving 205 inner-city Boston area students.
Students are selected by lottery without regard to race, gender,
disability, special needs or English language proficiency. Since
its opening in September 2000, MATCH has been featured in the Wall
Street
Journal, The New York Times, and the Boston Globe for its innovative
approach to education. Most recently, the MATCH School was featured
in the US Department of Education publication: “Innovations in
Education”
as one of eight charter high schools in the country with outstanding
success in closing the nation’s Achievement Gap.<br>
<br>
While much of the MATCH School’s accomplishments must be attributed to
its dedicated team of 17 teachers and its 205 optimistic, no-excuses,
hard-working students, the MATCH Corps program is often recognized as
being pivotal in the MATCH School’s distinguishing success.
Introduced in 2004, the MATCH Corps is a group of 50 of the nation’s
top
college graduates all of whom are committed to affecting change at the
ground level. Each MATCH Corps member is assigned 4 MATCH School
students to work with one-on-one, daily, for an entire academic
year. This full-time service year program is designed to fully
close the academic Achievement Gap between disadvantaged students and
their more advantaged peers - one student at a time.<br>
<br>
The MATCH Corps allows idealistic and dedicated young people to invest
their time and energy in depth over breadth, focusing their attention
on
a few students and their needs and goals. MATCH Corps is not
necessarily looking for the future teachers of America. We want
future doctors, lawyers, MBAs, architects; we want majors from math,
political science, literature, economics, engineering ­ anyone willing
to
work tirelessly for one year to erase, not narrow, the Achievement
Gap.<br>
<br>
In addition to an unparalleled experience, lasting bonds, and the
ability
to make a measurable impact on an inner-city high school student, MATCH
Corps members are compensated with a monthly stipend and a housing
option
in downtown Boston, and health and dental insurance.<br>
<br>
I write you to ask you pass this opportunity along to any students you
feel may be interested in the program; particularly, graduating seniors
and grad students. Attached you will find the template for the
e-mail we typically send out students; however, feel free to simply
forward this e-mail along ­ anyway you can help us get the word out is
much appreciated.<br>
<br>
The MATCH Corps typically receives over 300 applicants a year for its
50
slots. This year, we are shooting for 1000 applicants. Many
inner-city schools across the country have shown interest in creating
their own tutoring Corps and we’re out to prove that there is enough
interest among high-quality recent college graduates to replicate the
success of the Corps and use tutoring as an effective tool in fighting
the nation’s achievement gap.<br>
<br>
Thank you in advance for your consideration and feel free to contact me
with any questions you may have about the program or requests for MATCH
Corps literature.<br>
<br>
Highest regards,<br>
<br>
Justin Sallis<br>
<br>
Justin Sallis<br>
Director of MATCH Corps Recruiting<br>
MATCH Charter Public High School<br>
1001 Commonwealth Ave.<br>
Boston, MA 02215<br>
617.232.0300 x135<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Justin.sallis@matchschool.org">Justin.sallis@matchschool.org</a><br>
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