ABC World News came to visit Match in its early years.  Their 4 minute story here. 

Charlie Sposato was Match’s founding principal.  Amazing man.  One day he called: doc “found something.”  It was bad.  Obit here.  Video tribute here.  

Ann Sagan was Match's first backer.  Her story here in Duke Magazine.  

Match was originally heavy on project-based learning, per this article.  But we struggled to execute that vision, and changed the model.  

A building went up for sale: originally a 1917 showroom for Lincoln Motorcars.  We renovated it to be our school’s home.  That story here and here.  

The Boston Globe Magazine noticed my Harvard classmate - also named Michael Goldstein - pursued education as well, so they profiled us.  

Janelle was one of our first graduates. Years later, she wanted a charter school for her daughter - but they were full.  This Boston Globe story is about the “cap” on charters.  

Geoff Douglas was one of Janelle's classmates.  But he was murdered in 10th grade.  It shook our school to the core.  Mom got no justice.  Geof’s killers were acquitted, thanks in part to poor work by Boston detective “Mr. Homicide,” and by a star defense attorney.  His freed killers had a nice career of narcotics, human trafficking, and murdering others.  SMH.  

Roland Fryer’s estimable effort to build a school turnaround model in Houston, described on PBS here.  

Mike Duffy was our first board chair and later helped scale tutoring nationwide, Op-Ed here. 

Bob Hill develops Match Beyond here (now Duet).  Bob was our first teacher! 

Alan Safran podcast on how to do tutoring right, lessons from Saga.  

This Harvard Business School case study was about an experiment we tried called Match Next.  There were some impressive Year 1 results in Math - kids made larger gains than any other public school in Massachusetts that year.  But organizational buy-in was low.  It shuttered.  

Stanford Social Innovation Review examined our unusual approach to teacher prep - it was part of a larger movement, one that stalled.  

Cheerfully nagging kids to college in Hechinger here.  I’ve changed my view here over 20 years: I worry we’re “pushing” too many kids to college who are unlikely to enjoy it, learn, succeed, graduate.  And the debt is large: this US News story captures it.