Alpha School: Using AI To Unleash Students And Transform Teaching

Date: June 12, 2025

Alpha School divides the morning into four blocks of 30 minutes, during which time students…

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This week on Hard Fork, a New York Times podcast, we check in on the state of artificial intelligence in education. We talk with a co-founder of Alpha Schools, MacKenzie Price, about how her private K-12 schools are using A.I. to generate personalized lesson plans and enabling teachers to spend their time motivating rather than teaching students.

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