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Joe Lamont asserts that when students are given access to ChatGPT for academic work, 90% will use it for cheating.
Alpha School's founder, Joe Lamont, aims to educate one billion children using a new model and recruit a new generation of builders into the education sector.
The median high school student in the United States improves by only one point on a 300-point scale over four years of high school.
The Alpha School model enables students to achieve top 1% academic performance with only two hours of focused work per day.
Alpha School has developed a learning engine based on learning science principles that it claims teaches children 10 times faster than traditional methods.
Joe Lamont estimates that rebuilding the education system will require hundreds of billions of dollars in investment.
Joe Lamont's early technology company, Trilogy, developed a product in the 1990s that was the first to sell a billion dollars worth of AI-powered sales configuration software.
Texas is expected to release approximately $1 billion in school vouchers in the next year.
Students transferring to Alpha School from expensive private schools with straight-A transcripts test between one grade level ahead and three grade levels behind.
At Alpha School, between 40% and 60% of students report that they love school more than vacation.
Alpha School is developing lower-cost school models with tuition as low as $15,000 per year, which is below the average per-student spending in U.S. public schools.
According to internal surveys at Alpha School, 96% of students report they love school.