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Wealthy parents pay $75,000 for Alpha’s two-hour AI school day. Half of its K-8 students missed the math target
Alpha School, the network of AI-driven private schools charging parents up to $75,000 a year, has won backers from Silicon Valley to the Trump administration.
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Alpha School, the network of AI-driven private schools charging parents up to $75,000 a year, has won backers from Silicon Valley to the Trump administration. Its own data show most of its students aren’t reaching the model’s central promise. Only 42% of Alpha students met the network’s goal of learning twice as fast in both math and reading, according to internal data first reported by The New York Times .
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