David Steiner

David Milton Steiner (born 1958) is executive director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy and professor of education at Johns Hopkins University. His previous appointments include New York State Commissioner of Education in the New York State Education Department; director of arts education at the National Endowment for the Arts; founding director of the City University of New York Institute for Education Policy at Roosevelt House and the Klara and Larry Silverstein Dean at the Hunter College School of Education; and member of the Maryland State Board of Education and Maryland Commission for Innovation and Excellence in Education. Steiner currently serves on the boards of the Core Knowledge Foundation and Relay Graduate School of Education. Most recently, he was appointed to the Practitioner Council at the Hoover Institute, Stanford University. Biography He was born in Princeton, New Jersey, to academic George Steiner, a French-born American Holocaust survivor of Austrian-Jewish descent who emigrated to New York to escape Nazism, and was raised in Cambridge, England. He attended The Perse School in Cambridge and earned degrees from Balliol College, Oxford University (B.A. and M.A.) and Harvard University (Ph.D.). From 1999 to 2004 he was a professor of education in Boston University's School of Education in its department of administration. He then served as the director of arts education at the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) from 2004-2005 where among his accomplishments he designed and inaugurated the first national program to fund intensive teacher preparation to present major, complex works of art in classrooms. He strengthened assessment and accountability systems to evaluate learning outcomes in the NEA’s arts grants programs. Finally, he worked with Jazz at Lincoln Center to codevelop the endowment’s first on-line jazz curriculum. He left his position at the NEA in 2005 to serve as the Klara and Larry Silverstein Dean at the Hunter College-CUNY's School of Education. In 2009, the New York State Board of Regents, led by Chancellor Merryl Tisch, chose Steiner to replace out-going Commissioner Richard Paul Mills, who had served as commissioner of education since 1995. Steiner's accomplishments in his tenure as commissioner were broad. They include advancing the New York State Regents Reform Agenda by leading the successful $700M NYS application for the Federal Race to the Top Award and other competitively sourced funds.