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Sparx Learning Has a Homework Assignment for Schools
Millions of pupils use its maths, reading and science systems. Sparx’s bigger bet is that better routines - and teachers who can see what happens at home - make the difference.
Excellence
Excellence is a Y Combinator-backed (W25) AI education platform, founded by three Stanford-trained builders, that turns generative AI into a genuine learning tool rather than a homework-answer machine. Designed with teachers, it lets educators generate personalized assignments and exams, create interactive materials, and track student progress, while giving students an AI tutor that asks progressive questions instead of handing over answers. It began as an AI tutor for maths and science aimed at replacing costly private tutoring and long-term programs like Kumon.
Po-Shen Loh
Carnegie Mellon math professor and former U.S. Math Olympiad coach Po-Shen Loh argues that as AI surpasses humans at logic and language, the most important skill young people can develop is autonomous thinking. He warns that using AI to do school writing is 'like driving a car one mile for exercise,' explains why AI now solves original Olympiad problems he couldn't, and lays out a win-win-win education ecosystem that pairs middle schoolers, high-school math talent, and Broadway-caliber acting coaches to teach kids how to generate their own ideas, empathize, and think critically in an age of biased information.