Matchbook Learning, an AC client that turns around chronically failing schools, is currently applying for a city charter to launch an innovation school within the Indianapolis Public School system. An Indy Star article on the subject appeared in print.
Michigan Technical Academy, a charter school operated by AC Client Matchbook Learning, was recently written about in an article by Chalkbeat, which covered their turnaround efforts and looming Detroit school closures. You can read the full article at Chalkbeat, Detroit Free Press or Daily Detroit.
In the national education reform blog Getting Smart, special education teacher Joan Bright talks about her experiences with the Matchbook Learning model at Michigan Technical Academy in Detroit. To read the full post, see: Bridging the Knowledge Gap of Special Education Student.
Featured in Model D article “Detroit Public Schools welcomes blended learning into the classroom,” Matchbook Learning, a nonprofit school turnaround organization, brings blended learning to bottom 5% schools. A.L. Holmes Elementary-Middle School, the first school in Detroit to contract Matchbook’s expertise, is now a reward school after a two year partnership.
