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AI-Powered Alpha Schools Set to Open in Boston Area

Is AI-powered education the great equalizer schools have failed to be or an expensive unproven experiment children will pay for later?
AI-Powered Alpha Schools Set to Open in Boston Area
Above: A young junior high student in a classroom. Image credit: Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images

The Spin


Pro-establishment narrative

AI-powered education is the great equalizer that traditional schooling has failed to be. Alpha is bringing the Plato-and-Aristotle model of personalized, elite tutoring to the masses, using AI to unlock intrinsic motivation and mastery. Students spend just two hours on academics while achieving top results, proving personalized learning can outperform the outdated one-size-fits-all classroom. It's time to embrace AI in the classroom and a new, upgraded form of education.

Establishment-critical narrative

Alpha School's AI-generated lessons have been found to produce faulty, illogical content that does more harm than good, and the school refuses to release raw test data to back its bold claims. Replacing licensed teachers with unlicensed "guides" and laptops also strips kids of the social development that elementary school exists to provide. At $65,000 a year, Boston families will likely be paying top dollar to be test subjects for an unproven model that children will be paying for later.


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