Alpha School debate: researcher baffled by defense of ed tech repeating old failures
SashaGusevPosts · x · 2026-10-25
Sasha Gusev says he's baffled by John Arnold's defense of Alpha School: ed tech historically failed due to selection effects and lack of transparency, and this new ed tech has the same flaws yet is framed as an important effort. Arnold had conceded Alpha School makes bold claims without transparency or third-party evaluation, but argued to judge it by where it lands on the hype cycle in a few years.
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