{{Short description|American educational theorist (1934–2020)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} '''David K. Cohen''' (August 16, 1934 – September 23, 2020) was an American educational theorist.
Between 1964 and 1966, Cohen was a consultant to the NAACP.<ref name="digilibga">{{cite news |title=Cohen, David K., 1934- |url=http://crdl.usg.edu/people/c/cohen_david_k_1934/?Welcome |accessdate=October 5, 2020 |agency=Digital Library of Georgia}}</ref><ref name="asi"/> He then served as director of the Race and Education Project, an initiative of the United States Commission on Civil Rights.<ref name="asi"/><ref name="digilibga"/> Cohen joined the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1968 as a lecturer.<ref name="HGSE">{{cite news |last1=Anderson |first1=Jill |title=HGSE Remembers David Cohen |url=https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/20/10/hgse-remembers-david-cohen |accessdate=October 5, 2020 |publisher=Harvard Graduate School of Education |date=October 1, 2020}}</ref> The next year, he was named an associate professor, and promoted to full professor in 1971.<ref name="HGSE"/> Cohen retired from Harvard University in 1986.<ref name="HGSE"/> During his time at Harvard, Cohen served concurrently as president of the Huron Institute.<ref name="digilibga"/><ref name="asi"/> He taught at Michigan State University between 1986 and 1993, as the John Hannah Chair within the Department of Education.<ref name="asi"/> Cohen subsequently moved to the University of Michigan, where he was named the John Dewey Collegiate Professor of Education and jointly held a professorship in public policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.<ref name="asi"/> Cohen was a member of the first board of directors convened by the Albert Shanker Institute, and remained in that position for twenty years.<ref name="asi">{{cite news |last1=Bond |first1=Burnie |title=In Memoriam: David K. Cohen |url=https://www.shankerinstitute.org/blog/memoriam-david-k-cohen |accessdate=October 5, 2020 |publisher=Albert Shanker Institute |date=September 28, 2020}}</ref> He was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013.<ref>{{cite news |title=Professor David K. Cohen |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/david-k-cohen |accessdate=October 5, 2020 |publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences}}</ref>
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