Ashley Rogers Berner, deputy director of the Institute for Education Policy at Johns Hopkins University School of Education, will give a lecture at noon Friday, Oct. 27 on the University of Arkansas campus as part of the Department of Education Reform lecture series. Her lecture is titled "Educational Pluralism and the Problem of Culture."

RSVP online for lunch on the lecture website. Deadline to RSVP is 1 p.m. the Wednesday before the lecture. It will take place in Room 343 of the Graduate Education Building.

Berner is also an assistant professor of education. She worked previously as the deputy director of the CUNY Institute for Education Policy and the director of the education program at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia.

Berner has published articles and book chapters on the relationship between educational structure and state funding in democratic nations, religious education and citizenship formation, and teacher preparation in different national contexts. Palgrave MacMillan published Pluralism and American Public Education: No One Way to School in November 2016.

She consults regularly on projects that examine the academic and civic outcomes of different school sectors. Her teaching experience took place in a Jewish preschool, an Episcopal secondary school, and an open university in Louisiana. She is currently a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University Law School. She holds degrees from Davidson College and from Oxford University.