Alpha School

“And so we built a learning engine that teaches kids 10 times faster. It's all based on the principles of learning science. And so then now we can commit to kids. You just need to do two hours a day and you're going to crush your academics. So top one percent p…”

“We have a system where if you're not top one percent, Coming into our middle school, we will pay you a thousand dollars when you hit top one percent in your subject.”

“So our, so we pay minimum of a 100,000 dollars at our schools for the guides.”

“Your student academically On our standard, on standardized tests that we use are somewhere between one grade level ahead. If they had a straight A transcript transferring in to us, one level, one grade level ahead to three grade levels behind. And if they're a…”

“I put in the first billion, and just said, okay, this is my seed fund, big seed fund, to be able to go figure this out,”

“Time back by far is the biggest motivator of kids where if you took our Westlake high school, our, you know, in Austin, where they do six hours a day in class, four hours a day homework, if you're on API track, Right. You can't pay those kids enough money to b…”

“I think it is going to be a decade to get it to public school, and part of what we are doing is we have to show, we got to get the data, right?”

“The average grade level subject combo, so fourth grade math, takes between 20 and 30 hours To master. That's it.”

“Like in our academic two hours, there is no chat functionality. We've tried, and the kids all jailbreak it and get around it.”