Alpha School is a teacherless, homeworkless, K-12 private school in Austin, Texas. Its students have been testing in the top 0.1% nationally.
They learn through self-directed coursework with AI tutoring apps for two hours a day, spending the other four hours of the school day in ‘workshops’ where they learn things like how to run an Airbnb or food truck, manage a brokerage account or Broadway production, or build a business or drone.
Alpha School’s new product, Timeback, is aimed at scaling Alpha School’s concepts and results and giving students their childhoods back. Timeback will be free to everyone once it’s released.
Read the article on Colossus.
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• TLDR. (2025, August 22). TLDR Newsletter. https://a.tldrnewsletter.com/web-version?ep=1&lc=f5cb7e17-003d-11ed-9258-0241b9615763&p=37a7efb6-7f2c-11f0-9b29-8f76d000773e&pt=campaign&t=1755860278&s=645cc1494c311c683a1eaf5cf1f3dec62eb83ea56a9d9cceb7834938948a19b0
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