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Your Review: Alpha School
You can make the morning ultra-personalized, but if the goal of the afternoon is socialization that you are missing in the morning, you need to have some sort of alignment on how to spend that afternoon.
That challenge led to Alpha’s 2024 expansion into specialty schools.
That challenge led to Alpha’s 2024 expansion into specialty schools.
Anonymous ACX Reader • Your Review: Alpha School
Splitting kids by sports, gifted academics, and video game design? Weird that skilled labor is not included here. But in light of my late realization that trade school might have been best thing post-high-school for me…could be a good idea
A 12th grader scoring a “238” has about the same knowledge as a 5th grader scoring “238”.
Anonymous ACX Reader • Your Review: Alpha School
Wrong! According to another blog I’m saving here.
She invited a small number of neighbourhood kids (including her two) into a makeshift microschool that ran two intense, teacher‐led academic “sprints” each morning, then “life‐skills” projects after lunch.
Anonymous ACX Reader • Your Review: Alpha School
Education as cottage industry, which I can appreciate as soon of a Montessori teacher
In the first half of 2024 Alpha sent a group of students to Poland to help launch a 2-hour learning pilot among Ukrainian refugees. Students did not pay to go on the trip. But students also did not have a “right” to go on the trip. They had to earn it. In addition to being on top of academic and non-academic expectations, students who wanted to... See more
Anonymous ACX Reader • Your Review: Alpha School
Both educational and fun extracurriculars that bear no resemblance to the stupid stats-padding of normal school life. Positive. Though hard to see how it is replicated in a public school design.
The school’s “100% Money Back guarantee” is that every student who attends will be in the top 1% academically and win at least one national academic competition (for kids who start in kindergarten they guarantee 1350+ SAT and 5s on APs by 8th grade).
Anonymous ACX Reader • Your Review: Alpha School
Going to disappear once they scale. Basically an early-adopter’s perk. You can’t promise everyone top 1% performance or you’ll mathematically be refunding a majority of families.
In November 2020 we had a meeting with the head of our kids’ original elite private school for the gifted.
Anonymous ACX Reader • Your Review: Alpha School
Goes to show self-selection. Rich, private-school population
They reminded me of the staff you run into when visiting Disney World.
Anonymous ACX Reader • Your Review: Alpha School
Someone who believes that having tour guides be like Disney is a good thing when talking about education decisions is living in a different world than me.
Earlier in the year we had started exploring moving to the charter city of Prospera. There is a Montessori school there that seemed like it might be alright. And we could surround the kids with an interesting group of people (and live on the beach!).
Anonymous ACX Reader • Your Review: Alpha School
Almost a complete disqualifier for me, but I did keep reading, and read the comments section after the article. Starting to seem like a crazy techno-libertarian.
If a pattern of stumbles appears the system will automatically task the student to book a “coaching call” with a remote teacher (most of these teachers seem to be based in Brazil).
Anonymous ACX Reader • Your Review: Alpha School
Why are we outsourcing to Brazil and how are these coaches found? Rigor of assessment for tutoring.