Executive Director of The Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy
David Steiner has a unique record of achievement as a policy leader, education reformer and scholar. He directs the Institute for Education Policy, a new endeavor that seeks to integrate the worlds of the teacher, researcher and policy-maker. He will bring these often-disparate communities together in the service of excellence and equity for all American children. To do so, we believe that policy must be informed by evidence and sensitized to real-world conditions in our schools; that research has to speak in a language accessible to the policy world and to teachers, principals and parents; and that rich diversity of our nation does not preclude practices that can open doors for millions.
He joined Johns Hopkins after serving as director of the CUNY Institute for Education Policy at Roosevelt House and the Klara & Larry Silverstein Dean at the Hunter College School of Education. Under his leadership, the institute became the major center in New York City for the dissemination of research findings and the discussion of major educational issues by senior policy-makers (including the current New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, the head of the AFT teachers union Michael Mulgrew and former schools Chancellor Joel Klein) and senior researchers (including Mackie Raymond from Stanford, Dean Bob Pianta from UVA, and Pedro Noguera from NYU).