In the last year, one name has continously popped up in conversations about the future of school: MacKenzie Price. To some, she’s a visionary who sees what education could be in the age of AI. To others, she’s a Silicon Valley disruptor moving too fast with too little evidence of the benefits of AI.
Either way, Price — the co-founder of Alpha School — has become impossible to ignore. With her school tuition ranging from $40,000 to $65,000 a year with an AI-driven curriculum, and a promise that kids only need two hours of formal “learning” per day, it's hard to ignore the buzz around the “Elon Musk of AI education.”
As a parent of a highly intelligent, neurodivergent child who has struggled to fit neatly into traditional school, I’ve found myself watching Price’s experiment with unusual interest — and, unexpectedly, a fair amount of hope.
