At Austin’s Alpha School, students spend just two hours a day on academics, led by artificial intelligence tools. New Alpha schools are set to open in about a dozen cities this fall.
Alpha School, based in Austin, Texas, serves about 200 students from kindergarten through eighth grade and another 50 high schoolers across two campuses in central Austin.
A writer, editor and political adviser, he broke with the left over its criticism of Israel and what he saw as its anti-Americanism. But he also became a critic of Donald Trump.
The writer and editor Sol Stern at his Manhattan apartment in 2008. A liberal turned conservative, he was known for his largely nonideological judgment and his willingness to change his mind.