Education Reform must be targeted at the weakest (i.e. bottom 5% or “turnaround”) schools in our
nation where no systemic, architected solution exists in order for our nation’s aspiration
of a quality education for all to truly mean “all”.   Read more…

Customizing technology has impacted every arena of our society except public K-12 education.
Public education is the one domain in our society whose content and experience have
remained largely unchanged over the past 50 years.   Read more…

We agree with the research that states the biggest impact on a student’s academic performance is neither content, technology, standards or environment, but the quality of their teacher. Our model intensively engages teachers to design pathways for personalized instruction.   Read more…

If there’s a single reason to describe the failure in these chronically failing schools it is a lack of motivation.
A lack of motivation in the teachers, students and even parents is what scares off all-comers and
creates a daunting task for even the most ardent of reform minded educators.   Read more…

Matchbook was designed to create a sustainable, scalable solution to our public education system’s failure. There are enough education models that do not scale to all zip codes or sustain beyond the increased funding and/or talent infusion that outside influences have brought to that particular solution.   Read more…