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Texas private school’s use of new ‘AI tutor’ rockets student test scores to top 2% in the country
Fox News ^ | 3/22/2025 | Nikolas Lanum

Posted on 04/01/2025 6:43:26 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

A Texas private school is seeing student test scores soar to new heights following the implementation of an artificial intelligence (AI) "tutor."

At Alpha School in Austin, Texas, students are placed in the classroom for two hours a day with an AI assistant, using the rest of the day to focus on skills like public speaking, financial literacy, and teamwork.

"We use an AI tutor and adaptive apps to provide a completely personalized learning experience for all of our students, and as a result our students are learning faster, they’re learning way better. In fact, our classes are in the top 2% in the country," Alpha School co-founder Mackenzie Price told "Fox & Friends."

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"I have a lot of friends at traditional school, and every day after school and during school, they’re doing so much homework, they’re spending all this time on schoolwork, they’re so stressed out, and they’re just miserable," Kristine said during an interview with co-host Ainsley Earhardt.

The Alpha School junior revealed that she and other classmates finish their academics in three-hour blocks daily and spend the rest of their time working on "passion projects."

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: ai; alphaschool; education; privateschools; tutoring
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1 posted on 04/01/2025 6:43:26 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Feel good moment to start out the month. Thank you.


2 posted on 04/01/2025 6:44:17 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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students are placed in the classroom for two hours a day with an AI assistant

I guess the AI tutor focused on math, reading, science and writing instead of DEI and social justice training that our normal public school teachers focus on.

3 posted on 04/01/2025 6:45:09 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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Randi Weingarten will be screaming for an AI ban any second now.


4 posted on 04/01/2025 6:46:28 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: RoosterRedux

This imo demonstrates just how poor the quality of teaches actually is.

AI appears to be able to provide actual instruction in the materials where teachers lack the ability to actually teach the material.

We need to go back to teachers being actually proficient in the material and literally erase the whole idea of teacher / teaching degrees in general education with no actual subject knowledge.


5 posted on 04/01/2025 6:47:10 AM PDT by Skwor
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To: RoosterRedux

Interesting and heartwarming article.


6 posted on 04/01/2025 6:47:22 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: RoosterRedux

“passion projects.” Like pride/trans related crap or protesting for illegals, Palestine or keying Teslas?


7 posted on 04/01/2025 6:49:06 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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I just hope the parents are staying on top of it...


8 posted on 04/01/2025 6:49:09 AM PDT by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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Sounds exactly like my homeschooled kids back in the late 90's thru 2008. Core curriculum computer based, and then the passion projects, studies, and activities.

Fast forward to today, one lawyer at a firm, one architect, and one satelliites engineer. (EE)

And it was fun.

9 posted on 04/01/2025 6:49:39 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: RoosterRedux

I would continue to value the human instructor, but I can see the advantages of a well designed AI program for certain topics. “Everything you always wanted to know about trigonometry, but were afraid to keep re-asking.”


10 posted on 04/01/2025 6:50:43 AM PDT by lee martell
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Building skills like public speaking, financial literacy, and teamwork.


11 posted on 04/01/2025 6:51:17 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (WWIII has begun. It's the Left in the U.S. and around the world against MAGA. )
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in those severely liberal public school systems actually succeeding at the learning process is frowned upon. using AI to teach would require an ED209 Unit in each classroom as with no teachers to beat up the “kids” would try beating up the AI do it would need to self-protect. maybe in the future there will be Vulcan learning pits to promote deep and fast education but in the meantime...we are stuck with what ever works.


12 posted on 04/01/2025 6:52:02 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever" L.Star )
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Color me skeptical.


13 posted on 04/01/2025 6:54:39 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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There is always a comparison. Compared to most of today’s education, almost anything would be an improvement.

Education is complex, you are learning many things at the same time. The big fat pencil was the begning of learning manual dexterity. Using the Bible to learn to read also taught you a lot of other things. “See Dick run” didn’t really teach you anything.


14 posted on 04/01/2025 6:54:47 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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Learning is racist to Woke teachers.;-)


15 posted on 04/01/2025 6:56:10 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (WWIII has begun. It's the Left in the U.S. and around the world against MAGA. )
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My home school son soon learned the quicker he finished his days lessons.

The sooner he was out the door hunting fishing ect,.

He was done by 10am most days.

The actual learning time in a school day is small.


16 posted on 04/01/2025 6:56:16 AM PDT by riverrunner
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Alpha School in Austin costs $40K plus per year, was started by Stanford grad.

It seems to be the sort of school where elite parents send kids who they have already raised well, to go to the next level. I imagine the kids there were already in the top 2%

Try this program in the ghetto and get back to me.


17 posted on 04/01/2025 6:58:29 AM PDT by PGR88
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Learning is anathema to Woke teachers and schools—which is why they fail.

The fact that this school is achieving spectacular academic results implies that it isn't Woke.

18 posted on 04/01/2025 6:59:36 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (WWIII has begun. It's the Left in the U.S. and around the world against MAGA. )
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The AI is probably like using a cell phone. A kid will focus on that. Wonder if the AI grades the tests as well.


19 posted on 04/01/2025 7:02:01 AM PDT by cymbeline
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Good point. We need more data.


20 posted on 04/01/2025 7:03:14 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (WWIII has begun. It's the Left in the U.S. and around the world against MAGA. )
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