There is a pervasive view that parents won't pay for educational products. Not true. What is true: Parents won't pay for crappy educational products. Products like Alpha School, Math Academy, and Mentava Reading 🐮 demonstrate that parents will pay for awesome products that deliver

For some crazy reason, society has decided it's okay for kids to hate their time in school. I talk to executives who spend immense time and energy making their organizations great places to work, where employees can thrive. They then turn around and say, “Yeah, I know my kid

Great visiting Alpha and MacKenzie Price with Matt Ridley After talking to Alpha kids you can’t help walk away optimistic about the future

Many “adaptive” learning apps aren't really adaptive at all. They start everyone at the same level and then react to mistakes. That’s reactive, not adaptive. A real adaptive system begins with inference about the learner’s state. Typical pattern I've noticed with vocab apps for

Kids thrive in environments built on optimism, not defeatism. At Alpha School, we teach growth mindset starting in Kindergarten—a parent favorite. By middle and high school, students read Matt Ridley’s The Rational Optimist as a counterweight to the pessimism that can pervade

Alpha School has hundreds of parents showing up at our info sessions in NY/SF because this is true. You know your high-end private school is holding your kid back. You don’t realize how much.

liemandt Parent perspective: Alpha Anywhere that my son is enrolled in is the real deal. My son now does mental math nonstop - percentages, ratios, you name it. and the AI noticed his love of Roman history, then built GenAI lessons around it. Incredible coaches + curriculum. This IS the

Niels Hoven 🐮 Lots of stories like this Spoke to more than a few parents who moved their kids from top private to Alpha School which doesn’t use age based curriculum

liemandt Some friends in SF feel better about raising families in city because of Alpha School setting up shop. Keep on going!

I appreciate everyone who is helping us get the word out! Thanks!

My daughter's kindergarten class at Alpha did a workshop recently called "AI Imagineers" Each student chose a different hobby and had SchoolGPT teach it to them. That's my daughter with the animal trading cards 😍youtube.com/watch?v=foGBJH…

When parents hear “AI tutors,” they see Frankenstein. They should. But Shelley’s warning wasn’t about creating intelligence - it was about abandoning it. The creature became a monster because Victor refused to parent him. Uncontrolled chatbots in schools ARE terrible for kids.

I'm not sure what I find more interesting about this thread: seeing into the mind of the students or the adults. 🤣

I need lessons from Janet Oganah; she says in 2 minutes what takes me 2 hours.