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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.

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.

At this time of year, there’s a question on the minds of parents and teachers: what did you learn this year? Students at a school in Austin, Texas had a chance to hone their financial and leadership skills by running a food truck. Bryan Gordon, the teacher who worked with the students on this project, joins Ali Rogin to discuss.

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