Ashley Berner is Deputy Director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy and Associate Professor of Education. She served previously as the Deputy Director of the CUNY Institute for Education Policy andtheCo-Director of the Education Program at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia. Palgrave MacMillanreleasedPluralism and American Public Education: No One Way to School(2017), and Dr. Berner has published articles, book chapters, and op-eds on citizenship formation, academic outcomes, and teacher preparation in different national contexts. Her teaching experience took place in a Jewish pre-school, an Episcopal secondary school, and an open university in Louisiana. She has served as a gubernatorial appointee to the Maryland Education Development Consortium and is currently senior Advisorat 50CAN; and Senior Fellow at Cardus, a Canadian think tank. She holds degrees from Davidson College(Honors A.B.) and from Oxford University(M.Litt. and D.Phil. in modern history)