Ashley Berner is Director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy and Associate Professor of Education. She is widely recognized as the nation’s expert on educational pluralism, or the way many countries structure public education to include “choice” and “accountability” by design. She has published two books on pluralism and democracy, Pluralism and American Public Education: No One Way to School (2017), and Educational Pluralism and American Democracy: How to Handle Indoctrination, Promote Exposure, and Rebuild America’s Schools (2024), and is the series editor of Education and Democracy Brief Books (Harvard Education Press, forthcoming).
Dr. Berner has also published dozens of articles, book chapters, op-eds, and a widely watched TedX talk on citizenship formation, academic outcomes, pluralism, and the political theories of education in different national contexts. She led the design of the Institute’s School Culture 360™ and ELA and Social Studies Knowledge Maps™.
Dr. Berner represents the Institute’s work across the country and consults regularly with international, federal, and state-level agencies, non-governmental organizations, and school systems. Dr. Berner holds degrees from Davidson College (Honors A.B.) and from Oxford University (M.Litt. and D.Phil. in Modern History).
Please contact her at [email protected] and @BernerEd.
