Notes on Alpha School‘s Methods

Ben Somers:

Alpha School made a groundbreaking change to how we teach kids academics that every school should copy

They started A/B testing every piece of learning material to give kids the most effective materials for every topic

To accomplish this, they needed to divorce mastery tracking from curriculum. They needed to build a “routing” layer that has independent diagnostics/assessment in order to be able to run these A/B tests

We’re taking this one step farther at Recess; our product has a recursive/self-improving loop similar to how tiktok works.


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