What Joe Liemandt thinks about America
Founder of Trilogy Software and principal of Alpha School, the private school network built around two hours a day of AI-delivered mastery learning.
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5 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Joe Liemandt has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsWe have sort of how you treat academics and how you treat sports. And if we took the sports ethos and the athletic ethos in America and we applied it to academics, we would fix every academic problem in this country.
↗How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandtyoutube.com 4th of 26 in this recording
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Their wordsAnd that's the problem in our current education system today is we are taking eighth graders and we are delivering them eighth grade content because that's what an eighth grade teacher does by law. They need to stand up and deliver the eighth grade content.
↗How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandtyoutube.com 11th of 26 in this recording
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Our readingThe median American student learns essentially nothing between eighth grade and twelfth grade.
Their wordsThere's a test, there's a bunch of them, but you can use this one, which is NWA MAP test. It's a 300point scale. The average eighth grader to 12th grader goes up one point from a you know it depends on the subject but 233 to 234 four years later they don't learn anything.
↗How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandtyoutube.com 16th of 26 in this recording
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Their wordsThe most positive use case if you said, you know, what's the number one thing we could use AI for? It's not giving kids chatbots that's going to work. It's giving them an individualized lesson plan based on their level to catch them up to grade level. And that would be the single best thing we could do to fix education in America.
↗How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandtyoutube.com 17th of 26 in this recording
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Our readingFamily income, not IQ, is the single biggest predictor of a child's academic performance in America.
Their wordsThe single biggest indicator of your performance is your family income. You can predict somebody's test scores basically.
↗How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandtyoutube.com 24th of 26 in this recording