David C. Berliner is an educational psychologist.

After a BA and MA in psychology from California State University at Los Angeles, Berliner received a PhD in Educational Psychology from Stanford University. He also was awarded a Doctorate of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa, from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is also the father of Brett A. Berliner, a professor at Morgan State University and author of Ambivalent Desire: The Exotic Black Other in Jazz Age France.

Berliner has authored more than 200 articles, books and chapters in the fields of educational psychology, teacher education, and educational policy, including the best-seller The Manufactured Crisis (co-authored with B. J. Biddle) and six editions of the textbook Educational Psychology (co-authored with N. L. Gage). He also co-authored Putting Research to Work in your School with his wife, Ursula Casanova, Collateral Damage: How High-stakes Testing Corrupts American Educationwith S. L. Nichols, and edited the Handbook of Educational Psychology (with R. C. Calfee) and Perspectives on instructional Time (with C. Fisher).

Berliner is a past president of the American Educational Research Association, and of the Division of Educational Psychology of the American Psychological Association. Berliner is a Regents' Professor at Arizona State University in the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies division. Among other honors he is an elected member of the National Academy of Education and a fellow (1988) of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He is the winner of the E. L. Thorndike award in educational psychology, the distinguished contributions award of the American Educational Research Association, the Friend of Education award of the NEA, and the Brock International Prize for Distinguished contributions to education.

References

1. Berliner, D. C., & Biddle, B. J. (1995). The manufactured crisis. New York: Addison- Wesley. (Republished by Harper Collins)
2. Gage, N. L., & Berliner, D. C. (1998) Educational psychology (6th ed.). Boston, MA: Hougton Mifflin
3. Berliner, D. C., & Casanova, U. (1993). Putting research to work in your school. New York: Scholastic Publishers. (Reprinted 1996 by IRI/Skylight Publishers)
4. Nichols, S. N. & Berliner, D. C. (2007). Collateral Damage: The effects of high-stakes testing on America’s schools. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
5. Berliner, D. C., & Calfee, R. C. (Eds.) (1996).Handbook of Educational Psychology(1st ed.). New York: Macmillan. ISBN 0028970896
6. Fisher, C. W., & Berliner, D. C. (Eds.) (1985). Perspectives on instructional time. NewHe He is also the father of Brett A. Berliner, a professor at Morgan State University and author of Ambivalent Desire: The Exotic Black Other in Jazz Age France. York: Longman.