Texas private school’s use of new ‘AI tutor’ rockets student test scores to top 2% in the country

Date: June 12, 2025

Alpha School co-founder Mackenzie Price says students are…

A.I School is in Session: 2 Takes on the Future of Education

By: Kevin Roose and Casey Newton; Produced by Rachel Cohn and Whitney Jones; Edited by Jen Poyant; Engineered by Alyssa Moxley; Original music by Dan Powell, Elisheba Ittoop, Marion Lozano, Sophia Lanman and Rowan Niemisto

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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MacKenzie Price, co-founder of Alpha Schools
D. Graham Burnett, historian of science and technology at Princeton University

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A school in Texas is revolutionizing the way students learn by going all-in on artificial intelligence. Its leaders are using the technology to educate students without the help of a traditional teacher. NBC’s Gadi Schwartz reports for TODAY.

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Texas private school’s use of new ‘AI tutor’ rockets student test scores to top 2% in the country

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