MacKenzie Price

Jeremy SternJeremy SternJeremy Stern is a journalist, editor and podcast host. As editor-in-chief of Colossus, he writes long-form profiles of technology entrepreneurs and investors. He previously served in the U.S. Army, worked as a senior State Department adviser and held editorial roles at Tablet.Open the full entry’s long article in ColossusColossusColossus is a business and investing media company founded by Patrick O’Shaughnessy in 2020. It publishes podcasts, digital journalism and a print magazine, including Invest Like the Best, Business Breakdowns and programs made with independent creators.Open the full entry relates that in 1998, at a recruiting event at Stanford UniversityStanford UniversityStanford University is a research university in California founded by Leland and Jane Stanford in 1885 and opened in 1891.Open the full entry, she admitted to a Trilogy SoftwareTrilogy SoftwareTrilogy Software is a software company based in Austin, Texas, United States. It began with product-configuration and sales software for large companies and became known in the 1990s for large-scale campus recruiting and its new-hire training program, Trilogy University; it later turned to acquiring mature software businesses and running them with AI and remote talent, and its money has also gone into Alpha School.Open the full entry recruiter that she was not a techie; the recruiter answered that the company was looking for people in marketing and business development and made her an offer, and she then moved to Austin.⁠[1]

The article states that on her first day in the company’s training program, Trilogy University, her supervisor was the company’s chief financial officer, Andy PriceAndy Price (executive)Andy Price (Andrew S. Price) is an American business executive who has long served as chief financial officer of Trilogy Software, founded by Joe Liemandt, and is chief financial officer of ESW Capital; he is the husband of Alpha School co-founder MacKenzie Price and one of the founders of Unbound Academy, an online charter school that works with 2 Hour Learning.Open the full entry. It also recounts how she first met Joe LiemandtJoe LiemandtJoe Liemandt is a software entrepreneur and investor who founded the enterprise software company Trilogy Software and the software acquirer ESW Capital, and is principal of the AI-driven private school Alpha School.Open the full entry: she recalls that it was while she was in Trilogy University, when he came up behind her and asked what she was doing, she answered that she had a toothache and was trying to find a dentist in Austin, and Liemandt replied, “I’ll send you to mine.”⁠[1]

In 2004 she married Andy Price, with Joe Liemandt as best man at the wedding. Colossus describes Andy Price as a techie who had worked at Trilogy Software since he was 16 and writes that they stayed close after the wedding.⁠[1]

She recalls that her two daughters, who loved learning, came home from school saying, “Mom, school is so boring,” and that she could not believe it. When she raised the problem with the school, the principal answered that changing it was “like trying to steer the Titanic.”⁠[2][3]

Colossus writes that when her daughter was in second grade, the teacher said the girl was way past second-grade level but that the school could not teach beyond grade level; Price answered, “At home she’s reading Harry Potter.” ProPublicaProPublicaProPublica is an independent, nonprofit investigative newsroom based in New York, announced in October 2007 and operating from 2008, whose stated mission is to expose abuses of power and betrayals of the public trust; it had won nine Pulitzer Prizes by 2026.Open the full entry writes that she says she co-founded the school after her oldest daughter became bored and felt held back in public school, with the aim of letting students learn at their own pace.⁠[1][4]

In 2014 she and Brian Holtz, then a parent at Acton Academy, started the school, first called Emergent Academy and later renamed Alpha School; Colossus writes that it began in Holtz’s house with 16 children, among them her two daughters. She recalls that her daughters were then in third grade and first grade, that she took them out of their school, and that “I ended up finding somebody who was interested in starting a school.” The New York TimesThe New York TimesThe New York Times is an American morning daily newspaper published in New York City. Founded in 1851, it is published by The New York Times Company.Open the full entry instead describes the school as beginning in 2014 with 16 students in a rental home.⁠[1][3][5][6]

Colossus writes that after the students moved from Holtz’s house into a rental property, they were served an eviction notice because of neighbors’ complaints; they then spent two weeks in another parent’s house before using a parking garage.⁠[1]

KUT writes that she does not have a background in education and that she says she started Alpha to give parents a choice.⁠[7]

Colossus writes that Joe Liemandt’s two daughters asked to spend a shadow week at the school, and that one summer afterwards he took them out of Catholic school and enrolled them in Price’s school.⁠[1]

A 2025 FOX NewsFOX NewsFOX News is a U.S. television and digital news media brand centered on FOX News Channel and owned by Fox Corporation, with operations spanning news reporting, political commentary and digital content.Open the full entry article states that the first Alpha School campus opened in Austin in 2016 after two years of development, and the 2 Hour Learning website says that students at Alpha Austin have been using 2 Hour Learning since 2016. In Austin Woman’s profile she herself dates the school’s start to 2014, while the magazine’s description of the school says the original campus was formed in 2016.⁠[8][9][3]

The 2 Hour Learning website states that she created the 2 Hour Learning model, in which students master core academics in two hours a day and spend four hours pursuing their passions and learning life skills. Chalkbeat calls her a tech entrepreneur who co-founded 2 Hour Learning and Alpha School and writes that the model combines proprietary AI tutoring software with third-party apps such as Khan Academy, IXL and Amplify, and that it is used at Alpha School and at specialized schools for gifted students, students pursuing sports and refugees.⁠[10][11]

In 2023 The Texas Observer revealed that a company called Future of Education LLC had donated $1 million to Spirit of Virginia, the campaign committee affiliated with then-Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, on May 26, one day after it was incorporated in DelawareDelawareDelaware is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic region on the East Coast, with its capital at Dover and Wilmington as its largest city. On December 7, 1787, it became the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution, entering the Union as the 1st state, and it had a population of 989,948 in the 2020 census (April 1, 2020).Open the full entry; the address listed for the company on the donation record matched the Prices’ home in Austin. The committee passed $700,000 to the Republican Party of Virginia on July 11.⁠[12][4]

The Texas Observer calls her an alternative education entrepreneur and education reformer who founded the K-12 private Alpha School and the online education outfit GT School, and writes that her companies hire through Crossover (remote hiring platform)Crossover (remote hiring platform)Crossover (remote hiring platform) is a recruiting platform started by Joe Liemandt that hires remote workers worldwide for ESW Capital companies, Trilogy Software and other businesses.Open the full entry, a recruiting firm linked to ESW CapitalESW CapitalESW Capital is a private equity firm controlled by Joe Liemandt that buys and runs mature enterprise software companies.Open the full entry; it adds that she had previously given less than $15,000 to political candidates, all in TexasTexasTexas is a U.S. state in the south-central United States, with its capital at Austin and its largest city Houston. It was admitted to the Union on December 29, 1845, as the 28th state, and the 2020 census (April 1, 2020) counted 29,145,505 residents.Open the full entry. The publication writes that Dave Rexrode, chairman of Youngkin’s PAC, confirmed to a Richmond daily newspaper that she was responsible for the donation and said she gave it because of her interest in education reform. The Prices, Liemandt and Spirit of Virginia did not answer the publication’s questions.⁠[12]

She recalls spending much of 2024 and part of 2025 trying to obtain charter status in several states, with ArizonaArizonaArizona is a state in the southwestern United States; its capital and largest city is Phoenix. Arizona was admitted to the Union on February 14, 1912, as the 48th state. Its population at the 2020 Census (April 1, 2020) was 7,151,502.Open the full entry the only state that approved; she said, “we’re not gonna try to go where we’re not wanted.” Chalkbeat writes that Arizona approved Unbound Academy’s application late in 2024, that ArkansasArkansasArkansas is a U.S. state bounded on the east by the Mississippi River; its capital and largest city is Little Rock. Arkansas was admitted to the Union on June 15, 1836, as the 25th state. Its population at the 2020 Census (April 1, 2020) was 3,011,524.Open the full entry, North CarolinaNorth CarolinaNorth Carolina is a state in the South Atlantic region of the United States; its capital is Raleigh and its largest city is Charlotte. One of the original 13 states, it ratified the U.S. Constitution on November 21, 1789, becoming the 12th state, and its population in the 2020 census was 10,439,388.Open the full entry and UtahUtahUtah is a U.S. state bordered by Idaho to the north, Wyoming to the northeast, Colorado to the east, Arizona to the south and Nevada to the west, with its capital at Salt Lake City. It was admitted to the Union on January 4, 1896, as the 45th state, and the 2020 census (April 1, 2020) counted 3,271,616 residents.Open the full entry rejected it, and that she said a South CarolinaSouth CarolinaSouth Carolina (officially the State of South Carolina) is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Ocean bordering Georgia and North Carolina; its capital is Columbia and its most populous city is Charleston. One of the original 13 states, it ratified the U.S. Constitution on May 23, 1788, the eighth state to do so. Its population in the 2020 census (April 1, 2020) was 5,118,425.Open the full entry application was pending.⁠[5][11]

In January 2025 Chalkbeat covered Unbound Academy’s application to open a cyber charter school in PennsylvaniaPennsylvaniaPennsylvania (officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania) is a Middle Atlantic state of the United States; its capital is Harrisburg, and Philadelphia and Pittsburgh are its two great metropolitan areas. One of the original 13 states, it ratified the U.S. Constitution on December 12, 1787, the second state to do so. Its population in the 2020 census (April 1, 2020) was 13,002,700.Open the full entry in fall 2025 with 500 students in grades 4–8 and four teachers. She said, “I want this to impact millions of students.” Her promotional booklet stated, “Imagine starting a school and declaring, ‘We won’t have any academic teachers’”; she later acknowledged that this was not accurate, saying, “We have teachers. Teachers are critical to any education system,” and that the teachers, as “guides,” shift toward motivation and connection. She also said the 2 Hour Learning model had been used virtually with Ukrainian refugees, though those results are not public.⁠[11]

Chalkbeat writes that Alex Quigley, an official of the North Carolina Charter School Review Board, found her case “compelling” but noted that one Alpha school charges $40,000 a year in tuition, and that Bruce Friend, of the same board, said he was not clear about the role of the teacher relative to AI and parents. She replied that many Alpha students in Brownsville, Texas, attend on scholarship, and said, “The proof is going to be in the pudding.”⁠[11]

The New York Times writes that Pennsylvania’s Department of Education found the model “untested” and said it “fails to demonstrate” alignment with state academic standards, and that Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Arkansas and North Carolina rejected Unbound Academy. ProPublica writes that the Texas State Board of Education rejected Alpha’s charter pitch in the summer of 2025.⁠[6][4]

ProPublica writes that the Prices sat on the oversight board of the Arizona charter school and that at least two state education boards raised concerns that the school paid their companies while they served; the Prices acknowledged the conflict of interest and repeatedly promised to correct it, and Andy Price said in 2024 that he was “fully committed to having a majority board of 100% independent Arizona folks by the end of this year,” yet minutes show both still serving as recently as June. The article also states that Alpha projected 65% proficiency in English and 60% in math in the school’s first year, while the preliminary results were 28% and 10%.⁠[4]

On May 1, 2025, the FOX News website published an article on Alpha School that calls her a Stanford-educated psychologist and notes that she had appeared on Fox & Friends to discuss AI in the classroom. In it she says: “We use an AI tutor and adaptive apps to provide a completely personalized learning experience”; “That human connection can never be replaced by AI”; and “This is infinitely scalable and accessible.”⁠[8]

The New York Times article published on July 27, 2025, calls her a podcaster and influencer who co-founded Alpha; she called classrooms “the next global battlefield” and wrote on social media, “I’ve seen the future” and “It’s here, right now.” After Donald TrumpDonald TrumpDonald Trump (born 1946) is an American politician and businessman, a Republican who ran the real estate company the Trump Organization and starred in the television series The Apprentice. He served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021 and has been the 47th president since 2025.Open the full entry signed an executive order on AI in schools, she wrote, “Parents and teachers: We need to embrace this change.”⁠[6]

The article states that the school was founded under Legacy of Education, a for-profit company; that she and several guides said tuition at the Austin schools is $40,000 a year and guides earn six-figure salaries; that 11 of the 12 graduates of its first senior class went on to four-year universities, and she said the 12th became a professional water skier; that Alpha planned new schools that fall in more than a dozen other American cities, including New York City and Orlando, FloridaFloridaFlorida is a U.S. state occupying mainly the Florida peninsula, with its capital at Tallahassee; its most populous city is Jacksonville. It entered the Union on March 3, 1845, as the 27th state, and had a population of 21,538,187 in the 2020 census (April 1, 2020).Open the full entry, several of which, she said, would rent space from other private schools and start with about 25 students; and that Arizona would open a virtual AI charter school in partnership with Alpha.⁠[6]

The article also reports that detractors see her 2 Hour Learning model as “the latest in a long line of computerized fads”; Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said that a school that is strictly AI “is violating that core precept of the human endeavor and of education,” and Justin Reich, director of MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab, said schools “aren’t trying to get kids to race as fast as they can.” Price argues that Alpha is not a “screen school”; several guides said the AI-led lessons free them to focus on motivating students instead of on time-intensive tasks such as lesson planning and grading.⁠[6]

On August 25, 2025, KUT, Austin’s public radio station, published an article on Alpha School. She said she wants schools to be “results-driven and product-based,” that Alpha is a “tuition-based” private school, and that the share of students on financial aid is “north of 50%,” without giving exact numbers; she said families have moved to Austin from as far away as Germany and that the school shares student data only with parents.⁠[7]

Discussing Texas’s new voucher program, she said public schools “need to be accountable to their customer” and that she is not concerned that vouchers will drain public schools. The article states that Alpha’s communications officer and public relations representative said the reporters had asked too many “DEI questions,” and that Alpha threatened to revoke parental permission for the interviews.⁠[7]

On December 23, 2025, Community Impact wrote that Alpha School was opening several new Texas Sports Academy locations in Texas, where students receive athletic training while completing academics in about two hours a day on the 2 Hour Learning AI platform, at a tuition of $15,000 a year. The article calls her an Alpha School co-founder and relays her earlier statement that the model enables students to learn twice as fast as in a traditional school.⁠[13]

On February 3, 2026, Tom’s Guide published a profile of her by Amanda Caswell, which notes that some call her the “Elon MuskElon MuskElon Musk is an entrepreneur who founded SpaceX and has long served as chief executive of Tesla; he also took part in creating PayPal, OpenAI, Neuralink, The Boring Company, and xAI. He acquired Twitter in 2022, and his businesses span spaceflight, electric vehicles, energy, artificial intelligence, and social media.Open the full entry of AI education”; supporters see her as “bold, innovative and refreshingly honest about the flaws in conventional education,” while critics see her as “overconfident, elitist and willing to experiment on children before the evidence is clear.” The article states that she frames Alpha as a “student-first model” rather than a “tech-first experiment,” and that Alpha School charges roughly $40,000 to $65,000 a year in tuition and operates in Austin, Miami, Scottsdale, San Francisco and lower Manhattan.⁠[14]

On April 14, 2026, she published a signed article on the Alpha School website, “We Built a School to Double Your Kid’s D1 Odds,” describing the origin of Texas Sports Academy; she writes that “The lens through which a kid learns determines how efficiently they learn,” takes sports as the example, and concludes, “And so, Texas Sports Academy was born.” She writes that, like Alpha, the school has two hours of academics in the morning and four hours of life skills in the afternoon, that former MLBMLBMajor League Baseball (MLB) is a baseball league comprising 30 clubs in the United States and Canada.Open the full entry players, NBANBAThe National Basketball Association (NBA) is a North American professional basketball league with 30 teams.Open the full entry players and U.S. Marines motivate and mentor the students, and that the Marine Corps veteran Kelvin Childress leads the flagship campus.⁠[15]

On April 20, 2026, her Future of Education website posted video of her interview on Fox Business’s Mornings with Maria, describing her as “Alpha Schools co-founder and CEO”; the interview covered AI’s role in education, individualized learning and the future of classrooms.⁠[16]

On June 25, 2026, her website posted video of her appearance on Mike Rowe’s show The Way I Heard It, in which she discusses why so many children are either bored or lost in the classroom, “silent lunch,” and why some people believe the biggest disruption AI will bring will happen in the classroom rather than the workplace.⁠[17]

On July 9, 2026, Ed on the Edge, the podcast hosted by GSV founder and CEO Michael Moe, released an interview with her. She said her obsession with education “started from a place of just being a mom for my own kids” (1:06); she described the roughly two-hour morning block of academics, with AI tutors handling academic content and adult “guides” focusing on motivation and emotional support, and said Alpha had onboarded hundreds of students in the past school year and received about 80,000 applications for guide positions between May and December 2025; she also looked back on the charter school applications (23:37).⁠[5]

On August 4, 2026, she published “The End of ‘Hating School’ (And the Start of the Golden Age)” in her Substack newsletter Future of Education, writing, “I have the best job in the world,” saying she had recently written a letter to Alpha families reflecting on the past school year, and stating that the single biggest indicator she looks at is student and parent feedback on guides.⁠[18]

On September 1, 2026, she published “Hating School Isn’t Normal, By the Way,” writing, “We’ll have campuses in 50 cities this year,” and “The halls of Alpha School are filled with recovering school-haters.”⁠[19]

On September 2, 2026, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune jointly published a report by Lexi Churchill stating that she and her husband, Andy Price, gave more than $2 million, before and after Texas’s voucher program was approved, to state legislators and political action committees that helped pass and oversee it: she gave $10,000 to State Representative Brad Buckley, who carried the voucher bill, $200,000 and $100,000 respectively to Kelly Hancock and Don Huffines, former Texas comptrollers whose office oversees the program, and more than $1.5 million over the past three years to Governor Greg AbbottGreg AbbottGreg Abbott (Gregory Wayne Abbott, born 1957) is an American Republican politician and lawyer who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Texas and as attorney general of Texas, and has been governor of Texas since 2015. On November 3, 2026, he lost his bid for a fourth term to Democrat Gina Hinojosa.Open the full entry’s campaign, the most of any individual donor to his main fundraising committee; Andy Price gave more than $250,000 to a PAC that helped elect pro-voucher candidates.⁠[4]

The report states that Alpha roughly quadrupled its private schools in Texas to more than 30 campuses, most of them accepted into the voucher program, and that Alpha runs private schools in 17 states and Puerto Rico. In an Instagram post in March she said she had met with White House representatives and federal and state policymakers, writing, “Unfortunately, change is hard”; speaking in Utah about opening a charter campus, she said, “An AI tutor is infinitely patient.”⁠[4]

The report states that none of the Alpha leaders, including Price, nor the press office agreed to interviews; a spokesperson answered by email only questions about earlier reporting by other outlets, saying that WIRED and CNNCNNCNN (Cable News Network) is an Atlanta-based news organization founded by Ted Turner on June 1, 1980, as the world’s first 24-hour television news channel. It has been owned in turn by Turner Broadcasting System, Time Warner, AT&T and Warner Bros. Discovery, became part of Skydance Corporation along with Warner Bros. Discovery in October 2026, and is one of the five networks that rotate in the White House television pool.Open the full entry reports of families leaving over academic or anxiety problems “contain inaccurate reporting, misleading context and potentially defamatory representations,” and that the school had documentation contradicting WIRED’s claims but would not share it on the grounds of “sensitive mental health records, personal records and individual data related to minor children.”⁠[4]

On September 16, 2026, The San Francisco Standard published an article on a social media challenge boot camp for students at Alpha School’s San Francisco campus; a photo caption shows her and Joe Liemandt speaking to parents of prospective students at an open house there. The same article states that Alpha opened Founders SchoolFounders SchoolFounders School is an entrepreneurship high school program opened by the Alpha School network in Manhattan, New York, covering grades 9 through 12, which welcomed its first students in September 2026. Students complete their academics in the morning with AI learning software and spend the rest of the day running their own companies under the guidance of entrepreneurs; the school has drawn attention for its promise to refund tuition if a student’s business does not reach $1 million in profit and for its $150,000 annual tuition.Open the full entry in New York City that month.⁠[20]

As of November 2026, the founder page of the 2 Hour Learning website describes her as co-founder of 2 Hour Learning and Alpha Schools and a member of the Forbes Technology Council, and states that her model is also used at Alpha High, Sports Academy, NextGen Academy and GT School and that Alpha Schools have expanded to Miami, Brownsville and other cities.⁠[10]

Her Future of Education website describes her as the founder of Future of Education and co-founder of Alpha School, Texas Sports Academy and GT School.⁠[2]

Her own Facebook profile states that she is from Denver, ColoradoColoradoColorado is a U.S. state classified as one of the Mountain states, with Denver as its capital. It was admitted to the Union on August 1, 1876, as the 38th state, and its population in the 2020 census (April 1, 2020) was 5,773,714.Open the full entry.⁠[21]

She recalls that her mother was a single mother who raised her and her brother, describing her as “probably the most devoted, strong mom.”⁠[5]

She writes that she was an A+ student who nonetheless hated school as a child: her interests, passions and dreams were in the real world outside while she was stuck behind a desk, falling asleep in lectures; in an interview she said, “I really wanted to go to Stanford.” She and her husband are both products of public school education.⁠[19][5][3]

She graduated from Stanford University with a BA in Psychology. Austin Woman writes that when she graduated from Stanford she was adamant that she would never set foot in a school again.⁠[2][22][3]

Her biography on the 2 Hour Learning website states that over the past two decades she has been involved in projects that encouraged online apps for learning and has participated in large-scale research programs led by Harvard UniversityHarvard UniversityHarvard University is a private research university in Massachusetts, established by the Massachusetts Bay Colony legislature in 1636 and named in 1639 for early benefactor John Harvard. Its principal campuses are in Cambridge and the Allston and Longwood neighborhoods of Boston. It includes Harvard College, graduate and professional schools, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Two governing boards share oversight. Alan M. Garber was president as of October 2026, and the endowment stood at $56.9 billion at the end of fiscal 2025.Open the full entry that focused on motivating students.⁠[23]

She lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband, Andy Price, and their two daughters. The Texas Observer, drawing on Andy Price’s LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry profile, describes him as chief financial officer of two privately held companies founded and led by Joe Liemandt, the private equity firm ESW Capital and the technology company Trilogy Software; it calls him Andrew Price and the latter Trilogy Inc. In a 2026 interview she said that her husband and Liemandt, Alpha School’s principal, “are best friends and have been for many years,” and that the two families have daughters of the same ages.⁠[23][1][12][5][24]

In July 2026 she said her oldest daughter was at Vanderbilt University. The Texas Observer writes that Andy Price donated $20,000 in 2021 to Save Austin Now, a pro-police political action committee.⁠[5][12]

She has named Armchair Expert as her favorite podcast.⁠[5]

She argues that traditional education is “based on a hundred-year model that started with the Industrial Revolution,” and says, “I truly believe my purpose is to change education and help kids unlock that potential.” She has also said, “Motivation is 90% of what creates a great learning experience.”⁠[3][6]

Her website states, “I believe kids are limitless,” and calls for an education system that embraces proven, personalized, mastery-based learning to accelerate progress and close achievement gaps and that balances rigorous academics with life skills such as critical thinking, financial literacy and problem-solving; it says, “This isn’t about politics. It’s about our kids’ future,” and offers parents a template letter to legislators.⁠[2][25]

She hosts the Future of Education podcast, whose guests include educators, innovators, students and thought leaders; as of November 2026, Apple Podcasts lists 341 episodes, produced by 7 Lyons Media and categorized under “Education for Kids.” She also hosts a YouTubeYouTubeYouTube is Google’s video-sharing and creator platform, founded in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim and acquired by Google in 2006. Built around video uploading, viewing, and creator earnings, the platform has developed Shorts, YouTube Music, Premium, YouTube TV, and products for children, and is headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States.Open the full entry channel of the same name, whose description calls her the founder of the online program gt.school and co-founder of 2hr Learning and Alpha.⁠[26][27][28]

She publishes the Future of Education newsletter on Substack, with essays about the future of children’s education every Tuesday and Thursday. Her website states that she has more than 1 million followers on Instagram.⁠[29][2]

She says that, on NWEA’s MAP tests, Alpha students experience 2.4 times the academic growth of peers in traditional settings, and that “The results that I’ve been able to get from our schools have been absolutely phenomenal.”⁠[11]

In an opinion column in The 74, Chad Aldeman writes that he was initially skeptical and became intrigued after reading a profile of school founder Price and principal Joe Liemandt; he finds Alpha’s published growth rates plausible but questions whether the results would hold for less advantaged students. He discloses that he is a policy adviser for NWEA.⁠[24]

ProPublica writes that Alpha claimed 50% to 60% of students at its Texas Preparatory School passed state exams, while state data showed the share at “approaches grade level” rising from 19% to 21% and the share at “meets grade level” falling from 10% to zero.⁠[4]

Personal website: https://www.thefutureofeducation.org/ (opens in a new window).⁠[30]

Substack: Future of Education newsletter: https://futureofeducation.substack.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[29]

X: Public account: https://x.com/mackenzieprice (opens in a new window).⁠[30][29]

LinkedIn: Public profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mackenzielprice/ (opens in a new window).⁠[30][22]

YouTube: Public channel: https://www.youtube.com/@future_of_education (opens in a new window).⁠[26][28]

Instagram: Public account: https://www.instagram.com/futureof_education/ (opens in a new window).⁠[30]

Facebook: Public account: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090162887050 (opens in a new window).⁠[30]

TikTok: Public account: https://www.tiktok.com/@futureof_education (opens in a new window).⁠[10][31]

SpotifySpotifySpotify is an audio streaming subscription service offering on-demand music, podcasts, and audiobooks through a free ad-supported service and a paid Premium subscription. Its parent company, Spotify Technology S.A., is incorporated in Luxembourg, has its principal operations in Stockholm, Sweden, and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (ticker SPOT). It helped move the recorded-music business from buying and owning music to on-demand streaming and is one of the largest audio streaming subscription services by users.Open the full entry: Public show: https://open.spotify.com/show/5zqHqSQ1kLnD22mdXTCZ9E (opens in a new window).⁠[26][32]

Apple Podcasts: Public show: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/future-of-education-podcast/id1673109764 (opens in a new window).⁠[26][27]

Trilogy Software: Official website: https://www.trilogy.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[33]

Alpha School: Official website: https://alpha.school/ (opens in a new window).⁠[15]

2 Hour Learning: Official website: https://2hourlearning.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[10]

Unbound Academy: Official website: https://www.unbound.school/ (opens in a new window).⁠[34]

Texas Sports Academy: Official website: https://sportsacademy.school/ (opens in a new window).⁠[35]

GT School: Official website: https://gt.school/ (opens in a new window).⁠[36]