Michigan Accelerates Education Data Analysis with Intel® SSDs. Mathspace :: About Us. Always Prepped. K-12 student database jazzes tech startups, spooks parents. Big Data Analytics for K-12 Personalized Learning. By Kim Jones, CEO, Curriki There is a rush, perhaps a gold rush, underway in efforts to leverage Big Data analytics to improve K-12 educational results. A story from Reuters reports that a new $100 million data warehouse has been built in the U.S. to monitor academic achievements of public school students, from kindergarten through grade 12.
The article states that “The database is a joint project of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which provided most of the funding, the Carnegie Corporation of New York and school officials from several states.” Already 9 states in the U.S. are participating to some degree, and two of these, New York and Louisiana, are planning to provide all or most of their student records into the data warehouse. The database includes students names and addresses, and other personal information.
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