David Steiner

David Steiner is the executive director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy and professor of education. He currently serves on the boards of Core Knowledge Foundation and Relay Graduate School of Education. Previously he has served as a member of the Maryland State Board of Education, a member of the Maryland Commission for Innovation and Excellence in Education, the Commissioner of Education for New York State, the Klara and Larry Silverstein Dean of Hunter College School of Education, and Director of Education at the National Endowment for the Arts. As Commissioner, David took a lead role in the NYS’s successful $700 million Race to the Top application for the redesign of state standards, assessments, and teacher certification requirements, which included major funding that led to the launch of EngageNY, the nation’s most consulted on-line curriculum resource. He has addressed audiences on both sides of the Atlantic, and authored books, book chapters, and more than fifty articles. He holds degrees from Balliol College, Oxford University (B.A. and M.A.), and Harvard University (Ph.D. in political science).