Berliner was born in
New York City on March 15, 1938. After a B.A. in psychology from
UCLA and an M.A. in psychology from
California State University at Los Angeles, Berliner received a
Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the
Stanford Graduate School of Education. He also was awarded Doctorates of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa, from the
University of Massachusetts Amherst and
Manhattanville College. He is the father to a son and a daughter. Berliner authored more than 400 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 Education with S.L. Nichols, and edited the
Handbook of Educational Psychology (with R.C. Calfee),
Perspectives on instructional Time (with C. Fisher). Berliner was a past president of the
American Educational Research Association, and of the Division of Educational Psychology of the American Psychological Association. Berliner was a Regents' Professor Emeritus of Education at
Arizona State University. Among other honors he was an elected member of the
National Academy of Education, the International 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 Outstanding Public Communication of Education Research Award (American Educational Research Association, 2016), the Friend of Education award of the NEA, and the Brock International Prize for Distinguished contributions to education. Berliner died on September 26, 2025, at the age of 87. ==References==