An AI-powered private school is expanding its footprint in the Bay Area. Alpha School, which opened in San Francisco’s Marina neighborhood this academic year, is looking to expand with campuses in Palo Alto and the East Bay due to growing demand. There are no grades, no teachers and the students complete their focused learning in just two hours a day.
You might picture classrooms led by robots or chatbots with no human connection, but proponents of Alpha argue that there is a greater human connection than in traditional classrooms…