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Ashley Berner

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Ashley Berner

Senior Fellow, Education

Dr. Ashley Berner is Director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy and Associate Professor of Education. 

Palgrave MacMillan released Pluralism and American Public Education: No One Way to School (2017), and Harvard Education Press released her new book, Educational Pluralism and American Democracy: How to Handle Indoctrination, Promote Exposure, and Rebuild America’s Schools, in April 2024.

Dr. Berner has published dozens of articles, books, 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 United States 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).