Liemandt: Alpha's top 1% students learn 3x faster than elite peers
Joe Liemandt · Alpha School: AI and The Future of Education | Joe Liemandt · Mar 31, 2026 · at 18:28
Joe Liemandt, founder of Alpha School, addresses pushback about student selection bias by comparing Alpha's top students directly against top-percentile students at other high-end private schools.
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“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 percent kids kill everybody else's top one percent kids.”
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