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We Owe It To Our Kids To Change Course

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Hear MacKenzie Price on The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe, discussing things like why so many kids are either bored or lost in the classroom, silent lunch (yes, that's apparently a thing), and why some of the smartest people in America believe the biggest disruption AI will bring won't happen in the workplace — it'll happen in the classroom.

Alpha School is looking to revolutionize the way students learn by assigning personalized lesson plans taught not by teachers, but by AI-powered learning apps. A full day of academic work is packed into just two hours and when students hit their progress goals for the day, they spend the afternoon to work on life skills.

On Hard Fork, a New York Times podcast, 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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