currently Klara and Larry Silverstein Dean of the School of Education at Hunter College CUNY, came to New York after serving as Director of Arts Education at the National Endowment for the Arts, and prior to that, as Chairman of the Department of Education Policy at Boston University. As Dean at Hunter College, Dr. Steiner has created a path-breaking partnership - with three of the nations leading urban charter school organizations - to co-design a new model of teacher preparation. This initiative is supported by Americorps tuition grants and major private funding. In addition, he has worked with senior figures from Apple Computer to transform the use of video-analysis of student teaching into a critical component of Hunters programs, and brought new faculty to the school of education in all major fields who are committed to the highest quality clinical preparation of teachers.
An award winning teacher and recipient of multiple research awards, Dr. Steiner has published two books on the challenges of public education, together with two edited volumes, multiple papers, book chapters, and reviews. His research on Schools of Education has been the subject of a national discussion and has been followed by numerous studies by other scholars. Dr. Steiner has designed and constructed assessment, accountability and curricula materials, consulted with major education reform organizations, directed major grants, and served on national education task forces focused on the improved delivery of education. Dr. Steiner has addressed numerous public and scholarly forums both in the United States and abroad on topics of education reform. To his focus on education reform, Dr. Steiner also brings several years of international banking, and degrees from Balliol College, Oxford University (BA and MA) and Harvard University (Ph.D.). In his essay, ‘Arcadia Regained’, he paints, among other things, a unique picture of his father, cultural philosopher George Steiner (1929).