Joe Liemandt

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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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education 21

Motivation, not curriculum or method, is ninety percent of the problem in education and ninety percent of the solution.
The insistence that any education innovation must serve everybody at once and for free is the poison that stops education innovating at all.

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America 5

Applying the ethos America already applies to school sports to academics instead would fix every academic problem in the country.
The central defect of American schooling is that an eighth grader is delivered eighth-grade content by law, whatever he actually knows.

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chat interfaces 2

The single best thing AI could do for American education is not a chatbot but an individualized lesson plan that catches a child up to grade level.
Putting a chatbot into an ordinary school makes children learn less, because nine in ten of them use it to cheat.

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family 2

Children develop by struggling and failing on the road to success while a caring adult supports them, and school should be running that loop all day instead of leaving it to after-school sports.
Paying a child cash to break a belief that they cannot do something is legitimate, and it creates intrinsic motivation rather than destroying it.

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motivation 2

Motivation, not curriculum or method, is ninety percent of the problem in education and ninety percent of the solution.
Paying a child cash to break a belief that they cannot do something is legitimate, and it creates intrinsic motivation rather than destroying it.

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