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Fell down the rabbit hole on a charter school network called Alpha School. The premise? Two hours of traditional school daily, all delivered via AI apps. The rest of the day is spent on self-directed projects around life skills or areas of interest. It seems to be working?

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Justine Moore1 year ago

I discovered them on Instagram, where students give you a peek at their daily lives and what they’re working on. This is a middle schooler. Some of the high schoolers are doing really interesting research or work study projects that go super deep into niche interests.

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Justine Moore1 year ago

The obvious Q is does it work to disrupt the teaching model so dramatically? In applications to state charter school boards, the company claims that its students consistently score 90th+ percentile on national standardized tests. And they're quickly opening new locations...

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Power Homeschool2 years ago

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Erika⚡️⚡️1 year ago

I went down this rabbit hole a year or two ago. Something I love to see is the high schoolers who all have their own businesses! Every single one of them was making money, it was crazy honestly

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Brooksie (6,6)1 year ago

My son has been there since 5th grade and currently in 8th grade. He will not be attending the HS there but it has been an incredible experience overall. They definitely are in "startup mode" and have some challenges but the overall premise of 2x learning + life skills is 🔥🔥

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Rachel V1 year ago

What would be interesting is to see if it’s working because kids are all bright outliers to begin with or not. There could be a self selection bias here.

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e/acc magazine1 year ago

I would have loved to have had this available when I was that age. Should probably still do the same in my life now.

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Gabe Mays1 year ago

Awesome! Seems like some of the insane results @_MathAcademy_ is seeing with grade school kids working up through undergrad math 🤯 It turns out, there is no speed limit 🚀

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Rob Imbeault1 year ago

I'm moving my family to the US and this school is one of the reasons. Enrolling my two daughters here.

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Michael Mitsakos1 year ago

Interesting!

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Niels Hoven 🐮1 year ago

Yeah, one thing we’ve seen at @MentavaInc is that educational software without speed limits lets kids learn incredibly fast People think it’s some kind of miracle but it’s just removing all speed bumps to let kids learn as fast as they want

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