Assertion Not checkable as stated
Liemandt: 200-Student School Achieves More Perfect Scores Than 100K-Student District
“And so we get more hundreds on state standardized tests in a building of 200 people than a school district of a 100,000.”
Assertion Contradicted
Liemandt: Paper shows 50% of UCSD freshmen cannot answer fifth-grade questions
“I think UC San Diego, one of the top schools, universities in our country, right? Just published a paper that, like, 50% of their freshmen can't answer fifth grade questions.”
Opinion
Liemandt: Traditional classroom lecturing wastes 90% of students' time
“We waste 90% of their time. Like, we know that teacher in front of the classroom is the least effective way to teach. You know, you can argue whether it's five percent retention, but literally we're wasting 90% of the kids' time because we're teaching them in …”
Insight
Liemandt: Teen disengagement and mental health issues stem from low school standards
“These kids are disengaged. They are addicted to TikTok and Fortnite, and they have mental health problems, and all these issues that are occurring, and they're the outcome of low standards, not high standards.”
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Liemandt: Elite private school students with A's test years behind
“The high and private schools are all lying to their parents by giving kids A's when they don't deserve them. So like we pulled in, you know, so we had hundreds of kids join, you know, whatever, couple months ago across the country. Right. And these are people …”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Liemandt: University 100-series lecture classes will disappear due to AI tutors
“A hundred series classes in university are going to go away. Like as soon as everybody figures out this AI tutor stuff, they're just going to go away.”
Insight
Liemandt: If a Student Fails to Learn, It Is the System's Fault
“When we designed our educational system, I think we're the only school in the world who, if a kid's not learning, it's our fault. It's the system's fault. It's not the kid's.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Liemandt: Alpha School loses about 50% of educators over learning accountability
“We lose about 50% of our educators when we tell them they're accountable for the kid learning.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Liemandt: Alpha Fifth Graders Beat Wharton MBAs on Teamwork and Leadership Assessments
“We have quantified all the metrics on the life skills, right? So I know it's not just, oh yeah, our kids have grit, or oh, they're good public speakers. I'm like, no, everybody in our class scored 95% on RI, and every fifth grader beat a Wharton MBA in teamwor…”
Disclosure
Liemandt: Alpha Pays Middle Schoolers $1,000 for Top 1% Academic Performance
“So in our middle school, we'll pay any kid a thousand dollars to become top one percent.”
Insight
Liemandt: Traditional Schooling Only Serves High IQ and Conscientious Students
“The first is the way it's structured as a time-based system where you move up every year and you have a teacher in front of a classroom. There's basically, you have two attributes for people who do well in that system. One, It's IQ coded, which is higher IQ be…”
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Liemandt: Every grade and subject at Alpha School tests in top 1%
“Every single class, yes, every grade, every subject, top one percent.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Liemandt: Alpha Students Learn Twice as Fast in Just Two Hours Daily
“We also, our kids, fundamentally, in the two hours, are learning twice as fast as if they sat in school for six and did homework.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Liemandt: Alpha 3rd and 4th graders outscore 50% of US high schoolers
“I have third and fourth graders who outscore 50% of the high school graduates of this country.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Liemandt: Alpha's top 1% students learn 3x faster than elite peers
“Go take other 99% kids and see why ours are learning three times faster than those kids. Right. You can get the score that says, we benchmark our 99 percentile kids not against the average kid. We benchmark them against the top one percent kid. And our top one…”
Assertion Supported
Liemandt: Median US Student's Test Score Stagnates From Eighth Grade to Graduation
“The average kid in the US, like on this map score, this NWA map, there's a 300 point scale. If you take, I can't remember exact number but if you take an eighth grader, they will go up one point by senior year. How is that even possible? The median, that's the…”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Liemandt: Alpha's App Teaches K-8 Subjects to Mastery in Under 30 Hours
“Kids can learn 10 times faster. So if you take, like, just here's a metric for you. Our subjects, like take seventh grade science. In a normal standard school, you have a 180 school days. So an hour a day, maybe some homework, couple hundred hours, right? The …”
Opinion
Liemandt: 90% of Students Using Academic Chatbots Are Cheating
“90% of kids who are using chatbots for academics are cheating and not learning.”
Insight
Liemandt: Edtech fails unless students get their time back
“If you put this in a standard school day of six hours, it's not going to work. Like, ed tech generally has failed. And it's generally failed because the kids aren't motivated to engage with it. If you don't give them their time back, They're not going to engag…”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Liemandt: Alpha High School Student Submits Paper to Nature as Lead Researcher
“No high school student has ever been the lead researcher on something published in nature. And we have an alpha kid who's submitted.”
Assertion Supported
Liemandt: Harvard study shows AI tutors outperform top Harvard teachers 2x
“Harvard published a paper that That their best teaching class is their physics one-on-one class, one of their best, you know, teachers, and they did an A-B test with AI tutors versus them, and they published that Harvard, you know, there's a great paper, Harva…”
Insight
Liemandt: LLMs Commoditize School Knowledge While Enabling 10x Faster Learning
“Learning a bunch of material that is becoming commoditized. Right. LLMs are reducing, right, the value of that knowledge. Now, AI also, it's taking it away on that side, but it's also letting you learn 10 times faster.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Liemandt: All Alpha School Graduates in College Maintain a 4.0 GPA
“Our kids at college aren't getting paid, they're all four-oh students.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Liemandt: Alpha School Prepares Students for SAT 10x Faster at 20 Hours
“I mean, we're 20 hours, not 200. Right? We're 10 times faster.”
