David Steiner

Dr. David Steiner is the executive director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy and professor of education at Johns Hopkins University. In 2020, he finished serving as a member of the Maryland State Board of Education and the Maryland Commission for Innovation and Excellence in Education. He currently serves on the board of the Relay Graduate School of Education. He previously served As Commissioner of Education for New York State, as the Klara and Larry Silverstein Dean at the Hunter College School of Education, and as director of education at the National Endowment for the Arts. As NYS commissioner, Steiner took a lead role in the state’s successful $700 million Race to the Top application. His insistence on including major funding for curricula in that grant led to the launch of EngageNY, the nation’s most consulted online curriculum resource. Steiner consults regularly with the federal government, state education leaders, educational reform organizations, and universities. He has books, book chapters, and more than fifty articles. His most recent book, A Nation at Thought: Restoring Wisdom in America’s Schools, was published by Rowman & Littlefield in March of 2023.