Why don’t more parents PAY their kids to do homework? $10/day for 180 days is less than $2k per year. The HUGE reason Alpha schools work is student motivation.
Having excellent evaluation testing of chinks of knowledge should allow more systems of rewards to students who learn the chunks. Many reward systems should be tried, including dollars. My guess is that for students in poverty households, those in the bottom quintile, $ rewards will be among the reward systems that produce the most tested learning by students.
Only some of any group will learn to love reading, or learning. Learning is always some effort.
Re: the Astral.Codex article, can you discuss more the challenge of implementing in a homeschool environment? Maybe what modifications a homeschooler might make to their systems or even community to be more effective with Alpha systems?
Thank you for sharing all of this, Austin. I’m curious, what are your thoughts on history? It seems like that subject may become even more important in a digital age, as we move from asking Google (where we can check the sources) to asking chatbots, whose answers are often more opaque.
Why don’t more parents PAY their kids to do homework? $10/day for 180 days is less than $2k per year. The HUGE reason Alpha schools work is student motivation.
Having excellent evaluation testing of chinks of knowledge should allow more systems of rewards to students who learn the chunks. Many reward systems should be tried, including dollars. My guess is that for students in poverty households, those in the bottom quintile, $ rewards will be among the reward systems that produce the most tested learning by students.
Only some of any group will learn to love reading, or learning. Learning is always some effort.
Brilliant!! Thank you!!
I'm curious what is on the check charts? I'm especially interested in the sixth grade list.
Exciting! Will IXL still be in the mix?
Not anymore!
Re: the Astral.Codex article, can you discuss more the challenge of implementing in a homeschool environment? Maybe what modifications a homeschooler might make to their systems or even community to be more effective with Alpha systems?
When in 2026 will TimeBack for online schooling launch? And for what grades? Very interested in this.
Thank you for sharing all of this, Austin. I’m curious, what are your thoughts on history? It seems like that subject may become even more important in a digital age, as we move from asking Google (where we can check the sources) to asking chatbots, whose answers are often more opaque.
Thanks for the summary, quite interesting to see the broader overview I was looking for.
Subscribed to the waiting list of TimeBack, too. Hoping to use this in France when it becomes available.
The Texas Rangers play in Arlington, which borders Grand Prairie to the east and Fort Worth to the west. I’m lost on the connection to Dallas.