If your algorithm is actually the best-of-class for this problem, there are serious applications for it outside of schools.
I know that. But my focus in this thread are North America's schools as a big market.
But yes - how good this algorithm really is? Where is its optimal domain?
I guess, evolving algorithms is the best usage. Either from a previous known algorithm, either from scratch, either from data. Like evolving Kepler's law from planetary data. I wrote a post about that here, a few years ago.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/9pl/automatic_programming_an_example/
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