Alpha School internal data shows most students are not meeting learning goals
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Fortune reports that internal data from Alpha, an AI private school with annual tuition of up to $75,000, shows that only 42% of students are meeting the "double learning speed" goal in both math and reading, and about half of K-8 students are not meeting the math goal. Alpha already provides its platform to more than 2,600 students in public schools in Texas and South Carolina. The report also mentions a study of 26,811 middle school students in China: after using generative AI, homework scores rose by 18% and closed-book exam scores fell by 20%.
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Internal data reported by The New York Times show that only 42% of Alpha School students met the network's goal of learning twice as fast in both math and reading, with about half of K-8 students at its private campuses missing the math target. Alpha, which charges up to $75,000 a year and uses "guides" rather than traditional teachers alongside its TimeBack AI tutor app, is expanding into public schools, where more than 2,600 students in Texas and South Carolina now use its platform.
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