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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 16:58:41 -0500
From: "Tim Morton" <morton(a)post.harvard.edu>
Sender: tim.morton(a)gmail.com
To: rorsi(a)fas.harvard.edu, tlewis(a)fas.harvard.edu
Subject: Boston Urban Education Fellowship
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Dear Professors Orsi and Lewis,
My name is Tim Morton; I graduated from Harvard
in the class of 2006, and this year I am a
member of the MATCH Corps - a service year
program in urban education. The MATCH Corps is
a unique feature of the
<http://www.matchschool.org/>MATCH Charter
Public High School in Boston, MA. Briefly, the
MATCH School is an open-admissions public
charter high school serving 220 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.
While many of the MATCH School's accomplishments
must be attributed to its dedicated team of 12
teachers and its 220 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; each is committed to effecting change
at the ground level for one year. Each MATCH
Corps member is assigned 5 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.
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 although
they are welcome as well. We want future
doctors, lawyers, MBAs, architects; we want
majors from math, political science, literature,
economics, engineering, chemistry anyone
willing to work tirelessly for one year to
erase, not narrow, the Achievement Gap.
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, provided a housing
option in downtown Boston, and health, and dental insurance.
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 below you will
find the template for the e-mail we typically
send out students. Feel free to simply forward
this e-mail along anyway you can help us get
the word out is much appreciated.
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.
Thank you in advance for your consideration and
feel free to contact me at
<mailto:morton@post.harvard.edu>morton@post.harvard.edu
with any questions you may have about the
program or requests for MATCH Corps literature.
Highest regards,
Tim Morton'06
Tutor, MATCH Corps III
===============================================
Twelve months.
Five Boston teenagers.
One dream:
College Success.
MATCH Corps:
An Urban Education Fellowship in Boston, MA
<http://www.matchschool.org/WhoWeAre/matchcorps.php>MATCH
Corps is an urban education service program to
which individuals make a yearlong commitment to
public service in exchange for a modest stipend and housing.
Each Corps member is assigned five urban high
school studentsranging from grades 9
through12and builds in-depth relationships over
the entire year to work toward clear academic and life goals.
The program is an ambitious, intensive,
one-on-one tutoring program designed to fully
close the Achievement Gap between minority and
non-minority students, and between economically
disadvantaged students and their more advantaged peers.
MATCH Corps Fellows share a relentless
commitment to improving American education, one
student at a time. MATCH Corps Fellows manifest
their drive and dedication to service as they
work one-on-one with the same students each day
for an entire year; assist teachers and school
administrators; and run electives, clubs, or sports programs.
For more information visit us at
<http://www.matchschool.org/>www.matchschool.org
or send inquiries to
<mailto:recruiting@matchschool.org>recruiting@matchschool.org
Thomas A. Lewis
Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Committee on the Study of Religion and the Divinity School
Harvard University
Barker Center 409
12 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
phone - 617.495.2085
fax - 617.496.5798