Fortune: Half of Alpha School's $75K/Year AI-Taught K-8 Students Missed Math Learning Target

About half of K-8 students at Alpha's $75,000-per-year AI-driven private schools failed to meet the network's goal of learning math twice as fast, and roughly one in five missed reading targets, per Fortune citing NYT-reviewed internal data. Alpha replaces traditional teachers with 'guides' and an AI tutor called TimeBack; only 42% of students hit the dual math-plus-reading goal that marketing promised.