Michael Cohen

• Ed.D. Educational Leadership, Management, and Policy, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey
• M.A. English, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
• B.A. English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

Manager of Assessment Support (district office); Assistant Principal (high school); Supervisor of English Language Arts (district office); English Department Chair (high school); English teacher (high school).

Education reform; market-based reforms and privatization; New Public Management; educator professionalism; accountability; critical policy studies

• Cohen, M. I. (2025). Constructions of choice in U.S. education policy discourse, 1994-2020:  A corpus-assisted analysis. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 46(5), 659-674.. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2025.2451864
• Cooney, J., Cohen, M. (2023). Multiple Logics of Curriculum Leadership: How a Large Public School District Manages Institutional Complexity. Educational Administration Quarterly, 60(1).. DOI: 10.1177/0013161X231217987
• Cohen, M. I. (2022). Business-Inspired School Reform in the Era of Financialization: Not Business as Usual. Educational Policy, 36(3), 624-652.. DOI: 10.1177/0895904820904736
• Cohen, M. I. (2021). Education populism? A corpus-driven analysis of Betsy DeVos’s education policy discourse. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 29(16), 1-30. https://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/
• Anderson, G.L., Cohen, M.I. (2018). The New Democratic Professional in Education: Confronting Markets, Metrics, and Managerialism. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
• Anderson, G. L., Cohen, M.I. (2015). Redesigning the identities of teachers and leaders: A framework for studying new professionalism and educator resistance. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 23(85). https://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/article/view/2086/1653
• Anderson, G. L., Cohen, M.I., Seraus, M. (2015). Urban leadership, neoliberalism, and new policy technologies. M. Khalifa, C.G. Overton, & N. Witherspoon (Eds.), The handbook of urban school leadership. New York: Rowman & Littlefield.
• Cohen, M.I. (2014). ‘In the back of our minds always’: Reflexivity as resistance for the performing principal. International Journal of Leadership in Education: Theory and Practice, 17(1), 1-22. DOI: 10.1080/13603124.2013.804208