MIDAS education, a leading organization that brings analytics to education, announced six new board members earlier this week.
The new members will help MIDAS in its quest to ensure that educational data is properly available to educators, parents, and students.
While data within education isn’t necessarily new as we’ve seemingly always had access to test scores, student attendance, and grades overall, we’ve just recently entered an arena where all factors are woven together so that we have a better understanding of how data properly serves students.
Educators as well as parents are better off with how well we understand data and it’s connection to making schools, and learning, more efficient.
An arm, or program, of MIDAS education is its Education Enterprise Management (EEM) that helps resolve some of those questions about how to use data and its position in education.
EEM is a tool that educators may use to understand the patterns of different students and how to better serve them. How does attendance, behavior, and test scores all combine? It gives a clearer picture of how a student may be performing in school and what factors are leading to a lower or higher test score.
All in all, the new board members will come in service as a way to make the data more efficient as they’ll lend their expertise to MIDAS education.
The new members are Kathy Hurley, a former school teacher with over 40 years of experience in education. Chuck Amos is a veteran in the field of education and currently serves as the CEO of GuideK12, a company dedicated to analytics and education.
More board members include Rosalyn Kennedy, a communications expert for Google with experience as a journalist and television producer. Dr. John Whitcomb is a physician who founded Wellness University; a school dedicated to preventive care.
Peter Storer Jr. is another industry veteran who has a history in economics and once owned a software firm geared towards service cable TV.
Finally, there is a Steve Anderson, a venture capitalist who will have a role in how the company will invest its capital.