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Astral Codex Ten Podcast | Your Review: Alpha School

Astral Codex Ten Podcast | Your Review: Alpha School

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 This is one of the finalists in the 2025 review contest, written by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until after voting is done. I'll be posting about one of these a week for several months. When you've read them all, I'll ask you to vote for a favorite, so remember which ones you liked. Just as we don't accept students using AI to write their essays, we will not accept districts using AI to supplant the critical role of teachers. – Arthur Steinberg, American Federation of Teachers-PA, reacting to Alpha's cyber-charter bid, January 2025. In January 2025, the charter school application of Unbound Academy, a subsidiary of 2 Hour Learning, Inc, lit up the education press: two hours of AI-powered academics, 2.6x learning velocity, and zero teachers. Sympathetic reporters repeated the slogans; union leaders reached for pitchforks; Reddit muttered another rich-kid scam. More sophisticated critics dismissed the pitch as selective data from expensive private schools. But there is nowhere on the internet that provides a detailed, non-partisan, description of what the 2 hour learning program actually is, let alone an objective third party analysis to back up its claims.
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