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Alpha School showcases expedited student learning through artificial intelligence alongside state, federal leaders
On Sept. 9, U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon visited Alpha School in Austin alongside Texas Education Agency Commissioner Mike Morath. Alpha School co-founder MacKenzie Price highlighted how the school is using AI to personalize and improve students’ education.
“It’s the most exciting thing I’ve seen in education in a long time,” McMahon said about Alpha School. “I’m incredibly enthusiastic about this.”
How it works
Price started Alpha School in 2014 to provide students with individually tailored, accelerated instruction and opportunities to build life skills beyond the classroom, Price told Community Impact last year. Students complete their academic learning in two hours each day using an AI platform known as 2 Hour Learning.
The platform allows students to learn at their own pace and advance multiple grade levels in different subjects based on their performance. Price said the Alpha School model enables students to learn twice as fast as they would in a traditional school setting.
After completing their academic coursework, students may participate in workshops focused on developing life skills, such as entrepreneurship, leadership, public speaking and financial literacy. Last school year, Alpha School opened three specialized academies, including a GT School for gifted and talented students in Georgetown, esports school NextGen Academy in Northwest Austin, and Texas Sports Academy in the Lake Travis area.
The academies are led by guides, instead of teachers, who focus on motivating students and providing them with emotional support.
“It’s time for us to all hold ourselves responsible for delivering better to these kids,” Price said. “Using artificial intelligence is what enables us to raise human intelligence, not just for the students, but also for the teachers and the guides and for the families.”
The update
Alpha School opened several new academies across the United States this school year, including a K-3 school in Plano and K-8 school in Fort Worth. The company is planning to open an academy in Houston this winter, according to Alpha School’s website.
Alpha School opend a virtual charter school in Arizona and is looking to open a charter school in Bastrop in 2026, Price told Community Impact in February.
Additionally, Alpha School has begun partnering with school districts to implement its 2 Hour Learning platform at some public schools. The 2 Hour Learning program has provided intervention and enrichment for 1,500 public school students across more than 50 districts, said Gaston Griffin, a representative of Studient and former Alpha School guide.
“We want districts [and] schools to pilot this so they could see and experience this incredible opportunity and solution for themselves,” Griffin said.
What they’re saying
Alpha School student Everest Nevraumont said she advanced from a fourth grade to a ninth grade reading level in one school year through the 2 Hour Learning platform.
“In reading, I’m grade nine, but in math, I’m only grade five, because in reading, I’ve advanced way faster,” Nevraumont said.
Alpha School guide Christie Ray, a former public school principal, said she saw students improve from a prekindergarten to a first grade academic level within five months of implementing 2 Hour Learning at a struggling charter school.
“This opens up the opportunity to bring back what is missing in education, which is the love of school and the love of learning,” Ray said. “This is what we did with our students that were in the failing charter school and made them the stewards of their own learning.”
Noah Lightfoot left his teaching position at Dripping Springs ISD to become a guide at Alpha School. Lightfoot said he has been able to form deeper relationships with his students and motivate them to learn through their personal interests.
Zooming out
McMahon, who became secretary of education in March, said she was excited to observe Alpha School’s AI model and see how it could change how other schools in the nation operate. Teachers are most successful when they have the ability to be innovative in their classrooms, she said.
“Let’s be motivated in our states and with our school systems to inspire them to be curious enough to come and understand what is happening here,” McMahon said, “If I could achieve that goal, we would come a long way in improving our education.”
In the 2025 legislative session, state lawmakers allocated $1 billion to provide families with $10,000 education saving accounts, or ESAs, to pay for private school tuition and other educational expenses.
The tuition for Alpha School campuses ranges from $10,000 to $40,000 a year, Price said. Community Impact asked Price if she was hopeful the new ESA program, which becomes effective next school year, would expand access to Alpha School academies for more Texas families.
“Absolutely,” Price said. “[With] more of these types of opportunities for families to jump into private education [and] by getting that support from ESAs, it’s going to open up more opportunities.”
Alpha School academies regularly assess students to determine what they need to learn and build personalized lesson plans, Price said. The company uses AI to monitor how well a student is learning, she said.
On Aug. 27, Texas senators passed House Bill 8 to eliminate the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness and replace it with three shorter tests, which students would take at the beginning, middle and end of each school year.
“Several of the concepts that you heard today are actually part of the new system that we will be deploying in the 2027-28 school year here in Texas,” Morath said about standardized testing at the Alpha School event Sept. 9.
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Vikings vs. Falcons props, bets, SportsLine Machine Learning Model AI predictions: Robinson over 68.5 rushing
Week 2 of Sunday Night Football will see the Minnesota Vikings (1-0) hosting the Atlanta Falcons (0-1). J.J. McCarthy and Michael Penix Jr. will be popular in NFL props, as the two will face off for the first time since squaring off in the 2023 CFP National Title Game. The cast of characters around them has changed since McCarthy and Michigan prevailed over Washington, as the likes of Justin Jefferson, Kyle Pitts, T.J. Hockenson, and Drake London now flank the quarterbacks. There are several NFL player props one could target for these star players, or you may find value in going after under-the-radar options.
Tyler Allgeier had 10 carries in Week 1, which were just two fewer than Bijan Robinson, with the latter being more involved in the passing game with six receptions. If Allgeier has a similar type of volume going forward, then the over for his rushing yards NFL prop may be one to consider. A strong run game would certainly help out a young quarterback like Penix, so both Allgeier and Robinson have intriguing Sunday Night Football props. Before betting any Falcons vs. Vikings props for Sunday Night Football, you need to see the Vikings vs. Falcons prop predictions powered by SportsLine’s Machine Learning Model AI.
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After analyzing the Vikings vs. Falcons props and examining the dozens of NFL player prop markets, the SportsLine’s Machine Learning Model says Falcons RB Bijan Robinson goes Over 68.5 rushing yards (-114 at FanDuel). Robinson ran for 92 yards and a touchdown in Week 14 of last season versus Minnesota, despite the Vikings having the league’s No. 2 run defense a year ago. After replacing their entire starting defensive line in the offseason, it doesn’t appear the Vikings are as stout on the ground. They allowed 119 rushing yards in Week 1, which is more than they gave up in all but four games a year ago.
Robinson is coming off a season with 1,454 rushing yards, which ranked third in the NFL. He averaged 85.6 yards per game, and not only has he eclipsed 65.5 yards in six of his last seven games, but he’s had at least 90 yards on the ground in those six games. Over Minnesota’s last eight games, including the postseason, six different running backs have gone over 65.5 rushing yards, as the SportsLine Machine Learning Model projects Robinson to have 85.6 yards in a 4.5-star prop pick. See more NFL props here, and new users can also target the FanDuel promo code, which offers new users $300 in bonus bets if their first $5 bet wins:
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Prediction: These AI Stocks Could Outperform the “Magnificent Seven” Over the Next Decade
The “Magnificent Seven” stocks, which drove indexes higher over the past couple of years, continued that job in recent months. And for good reason. Most of these tech giants are playing key roles in the high-growth industry of artificial intelligence (AI), a market forecast to reach into the trillions of dollars by the early 2030s. Investors, wanting to benefit from this growth, have piled into these current and potential AI winners.
But the Magnificent Seven stocks aren’t the only ones that may be set to excel in AI and deliver growth to investors. As the AI story progresses, the need for infrastructure capacity and certain equipment could result in surging sales for other companies too. That’s why my prediction is the following three stocks are on track for major strength in AI and may even outperform the Magnificent Seven over the coming decade. Let’s check them out.
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1. Oracle
Oracle (ORCL -5.05%) started out as a database management specialist, and it still is a giant in this area, but in recent times it’s put the focus on growing its cloud infrastructure business — and this has supercharged the company’s revenue.
AI customers are rushing to Oracle for capacity to run training and inferencing workloads, and this movement helped the company report a 55% increase in infrastructure revenue in the recent quarter. And Oracle predicts this may be just the beginning. The company expects this business to deliver $18 billion in revenue this year — and grow that to $144 billion four years from now.
Investors were so excited about Oracle’s forecasts that the stock surged about 35% in one trading session, adding more than $200 billion in market value. Customers are seeing the value of Oracle’s database technology paired with AI — a combination that allows them to securely apply AI to their businesses — and this may keep the demand for Oracle’s services going strong and the stock price heading higher as the AI story enters its next chapters.
2. CoreWeave
CoreWeave (CRWV -0.65%) has designed its cloud platform specifically for AI workloads, and the company works closely with chip leader Nvidia. So far, this has resulted in CoreWeave’s being the first to make Nvidia’s latest platforms generally available to customers. This is a big plus as companies scramble to gain access to Nvidia’s innovations as soon as possible.
Nvidia also is a believer in CoreWeave’s potential as the chip giant holds shares in the company. As of the second quarter, CoreWeave makes up 91% of Nvidia’s investment portfolio. Considering Nvidia’s knowledge of the AI landscape, this investment is particularly meaningful.
Customers may also like the flexibility of CoreWeave’s services, allowing them to rent graphics processing units (GPUs) by the hour or for the long term. All of this has led to explosive revenue growth for the company. In the latest quarter, revenue tripled to more than $1.2 billion.
The growing need for AI infrastructure should translate into ongoing explosive growth for CoreWeave, and that may make it a stronger stock market performer than long-established players — such as the Magnificent Seven.
3. Broadcom
Broadcom (AVGO 0.19%) is a networking leader, with its products present in a variety of places from your smartphone to data centers. And in recent times, demand from AI customers — for items such as customized chips and networking equipment — has helped revenue soar.
In the recent quarter, Broadcom said AI revenue jumped 63% year over year to $5.2 billion, and the company forecast AI revenue of $6.2 billion in the next quarter. The company already is working on custom chips for three major customers, and demand from them is growing — on top of this, Broadcom just announced a $10 billion order from another customer, one that analysts and press reports say may be OpenAI.
Meanwhile, Broadcom’s expertise in networking is paying off as high-performance systems are needed to connect customers’ growing numbers of compute nodes. As AI customers scale up their platforms, they need to share data between more and more of these nodes — and Broadcom has what it takes to do the job.
We’re still in the early phases of this AI buildout — as mentioned, the AI market may be heading for the trillion-dollar mark — and Broadcom clearly will benefit. And that may help this top tech stock to outperform the Magnificent Seven over the next decade.
Adria Cimino has positions in Oracle. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Nvidia and Oracle. The Motley Fool recommends Broadcom. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
For many years, you have called for the rebuilding of China’s own knowledge system. Recently, you have also voiced concerns about “intellectual colonialism” in the artificial intelligence era. Can you elaborate?
The concerns mainly refer to challenges in China’s social sciences which originated from the West.
Religions, ideology, values – as Samuel Huntington explained in his book The Clash of Civilisations – are important for any nation. And the meaning of society and technology is determined by the humanities and social sciences.
Chinese researchers learned and adopted theories of Western social sciences, but these are based on Western methods that summarise Western practices and experiences, and are then used to explain Western society.
Those theories have failed to explain Confucian civilisation, the Islamic world and Indian society. We should fully embrace our secular civilisation, and thereby play a proper role in the international order.
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