Why doesn’t @Alphaschool just show the world the kind of data they share with parents? We know why. It would be an utter embarrassment for a school that claims to be at the forefront of technology in education.

Has anyone in the public sphere actually seen Alpha’s “AI”?

@Alphaschool has to use the AI spin, not just as a marketing tactic, but because it is necessary for the marketing claims they are making . After all, they cannot go to the market and say “we are able to teach at Kids at 2X speed in only two hours a day by simply using adaptive apps that have been around for a decade” It’s a scam.

@Alphaschool has to use the AI spin, not just as a marketing tactic, but because it is necessary for the marketing claims they are making After all, they cannot go to the market and say “we are able to teach at Kids at 2X speed in only two hours a day by simply using adaptive apps that have been around for a decade” It’s a scam.

If we told you that Alpha School uses the same apps as many other schools (Math Academy, IXL, etc.) And all Alpha does is measure the time spent on lessons and accuracy of assignments, would you call this an AI school?

@emily_vallillo have you made a request to tour the school and have they responded?

Reckless expansion strategy…just like @Alphaschool. Wait until people find out how their campuses have been operated.

One crooked company, joining another.

Wow.

Not to mention Alpha engages in misleading advertising.

We’ve been blocked… @benjaminjriley is everyone aware Austin Scholar is Joe Liemandt’s daughter?

@emily_vallillo I could be we wrong, but I doubt they’d let you visit a classroom. If they do, I’d recommend you look into a few things. Happy to share more with you.

Leave Elizabeth alone to run her little company. Healthcare needs innovation.

@FortuneMagazine time to start asking some tougher questions.

Motivation without expertise is a pep talk. Pretty expensive for $+50k a year.

“High standards, high support” sounds great until the support person has no training on the subject. How are they going to help you in math, reading, literacy??

In our experience, guides could cheer, track XP, and run the culture script. What they could not reliably do: diagnose a learning gap and teach through it the way a trained teacher would.

Alpha’s own pitch: guides don’t need to be subject-matter experts. So when your child is stuck on reading or math, what do you do??? They do the only thing they know how to do: coach grit, not actually teaching the thing.

Alpha hires Guides. That isn’t innovation. It’s a downgrade of the adult in the room. They’re just a motivator with a dashboard.

We’re all for improving education. I would caution you though. You wouldn’t want to be the person who said “hey why are you so mad at ENRON, they’re just doing things differently”. Enron was a scam. So is Alpha. And we know. Soon, everyone will know.