Dick Methia is a test expert with over 40 years experience in American education. Methia is author of Ace Any Test: The Parent’s Guide to Testing and How To Prep Tests in 7 Simple Steps

Dick Methia ~ Bio

Dick is founder and president of The Infinity Group an independent consulting firm specializing in educational communications and leadership.  

From 2001-2004, Dick directed a major leadership project for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation involving training school leaders — school boards, superintendents, and principals — in the data-driven transformation of their schools.

Dick was consulting advisor to the Educational Testing Service of Princeton (ETS) on a project to design an ICT global assessment framework for 43 countries.  In that role Methia represented the U.S. K-12 community and helped author the panel’s groundbreaking report, “Digital Transformation: A Framework for ICT Literacy.”

Dick is also an accomplished speaker. He has had done countless public presentations to conventions, conferences, and other audiences in 47 of the 50 states and abroad.  In 1988 he was the first U.S. educator invited to Beijing, China to deliver the keynote address in the Great Hall of the People at the American-Chinese Youth Science Exchange.   

Dick has taught Communications at the pre-college and college level, including the faculty of the USDA Graduate School, one of the world’s largest professional training schools.

Dick's philanthropic work includes chairmanship of the Board of Directors of LINK Americas Foundation (LAF), a California non-profit whose mission is to link digital communities across the globe.  Dick was chairman of LAF's Inaugural Gala 2009 - Technology Serving Humanity, held January 20, 2009, at the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC.

In June 1985 Dick, a 20-year veteran of the classroom, was chosen from 11,000 applicants worldwide to be one of the ten National Finalists in NASA's Teacher-In-Space Program for the spot eventually filled by his colleague and friend Christa McAuliffe.

During his participation in NASA’s Teacher in Space Program, Dick conducted an international speaking tour.  For his efforts NASA honored him with its Public Service Group Achievement Award.

In further recognition of his contributions to education, the Air Force Association named him a General Jimmy Doolittle Fellow, an award he received from General Doolittle himself. 

From 1988-1998 Dick was a senior education executive at Challenger Center, the international science education organization founded by the families of the astronauts who perished aboard the Space Shuttle in 1986.  For its first decade Dick had overall responsibility for Challenger Center's North American educational programs including the creation and training of Challenger Center’s International Faculty.