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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.”
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.”
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 …”
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.”
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 …”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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…”
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.”
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…”
Liemandt: Every grade and subject at Alpha School tests in top 1%
“Every single class, yes, every grade, every subject, top one percent.”
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.”
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.”
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…”
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…”
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 …”
Liemandt: 90% of Students Using Academic Chatbots Are Cheating
“90% of kids who are using chatbots for academics are cheating and not learning.”
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…”
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.”
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…”
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.”
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.”
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.”
Liemandt: US Earnings and Educational Outcomes Are Less Correlated Than Globally
“In the U.S., there's a big disconnect between educational outcomes and your earning potential, which is they're not as tightly correlated. As they are in the rest of the world. Right. They're very tightly correlated in the rest of the world and not in the US.”
Liemandt: Only 10% of Education Market Prioritizes Academics Over Time Efficiency
“Now, 10% of the market does. 10% of the market totally cares about great academics, right? And so those guys, they demand it. Like, they don't like two hour learning because it's not enough learning.”
Liemandt: Every student can master 8th-grade Common Core with proper prerequisites
“There's no concept in U.S. Common Core through the eighth grade that everybody can't understand, right? It's built that way. So it's just a matter of do if, and if you're having trouble, it's usually because you don't have the prereqs.”
Liemandt: Multiple US states legally mandate teaching strictly at grade level
“There's actually laws in states, various states, that you must teach at grade level. Like, it's illegal for a teacher not to teach at grade level, right?”
Liemandt: Alpha Spends $10,000 per Student on AI Compute
“This is actually the most expensive part of our AI, and one of our limitations right now is we burn a lot of AI. 10,000 bucks a kid right now, and we'll get it down to Less than a thousand, and then a hundred, we're driving it down”
Liemandt: Physical schools will still exist in 20 years
“In 20 years, you know, predict the future, what's going to be the same in 20 years? Parents are going to drop their kids off at a building. In the building are gonna be other kids and adults, right? There's, we're not, you're not getting rid of school. School …”
Liemandt: Alpha's Time Back Engine Will Release Globally in 2026
“That's Time Back, our Time Back engine, that's 10, and today it's at Alpha, you know, in 20, 26, everybody in the world's gonna be able to access it. And so everybody who wants to build a school based on Time Back is gonna be able to next year.”
Liemandt: Harvard grade inflation is driven by parent and student pressure
“Parents in general want low standards at their school, and part of why schools, even private schools, right, react. Why does Harvard have grade inflation? Harvard, right? And it's because there is pressure from parents and students to lower standards.”
Liemandt: All 11 college-bound Alpha School graduates got into first-choice colleges
“Our first class was, we had 12 graduates 11 of them went to college. The 12th is one of the world's best water skiers. And so he's building his media empire while he water skis. It was like, I'm not going to college. The other ones all got into their first cho…”
Liemandt: TimeBack will become the Shopify for micro-schools
“Think of Shopify for micro school, or for schools, right? That's what time back is going to be, and it's going to explode it.”
Liemandt: 40% to 60% of Alpha School students prefer school over vacation
“We survey our kids every eight weeks, and it was, you know, 96% of our kids said yes. But we actually raised, it got too high. It's not a good metric when everybody says yes. So we added a second question, which was, do you love school more than vacation? Righ…”
Liemandt: Alpha second graders achieved 35-minute 5Ks through habit training
“And by December, they're all running 35 minute five K's.”
Liemandt: Alpha Kindergartners Finish 100-Piece Puzzles; Third Graders Solve Rubik's Cubes
“Every third grader in our school can do a Rubik's cube. Every kindergartner can do a hundred piece puzzle.”
Liemandt: Alpha School requires 1350 SAT minimum, 1550 for honors
“If you're on our honor, our high school program, non-honors is 13 50 minimum. Honors is 1550. And the difference is, it's three hours a day to do honors, which is 15 50 plus fives on your APs. 13 50 and a four or five on your AP, that only takes two hours.”
Alpha Built Multi-User Academic Competition Version of Its Software
“Like we have a multi-user version where the kids are just competing, right? Think of video games, but just, you know, you're competing on academics”
Liemandt: Alpha Student Produced Musical Garnering 1M Streams in Week One
“We have a high school. She's doing a Broadway musical. Right? Launch, all team produced Broadway musical. She sourced all the singers off TikTok. Million streams the first week when they went. They can fill, they filled, like, four times they filled a venue.”