Books

Cohen, D.K., & Hill, Heather C. (2001) Learning Policy: When State Education Reform Works. New Haven, Yale.

Journal Articles

Cohen, D.K., Moffitt, S.L., & Goldin, S. (2007). Policy and practice: The dilemma. American Journal of Education, 113.

Cohen, D., Raudenbush, S., & Ball, D. (2003). Resources, instruction, and research.  Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 25 (2), 1-24.

Cohen, D. K., & Ball, D. L. (2001). Making change: Instruction and its improvement. Kappan.

Cohen, D.K and Hill, H.C. (2000). Instructional policy and classroom performance: The mathematics reform in California. Teachers College Record 102(2), 294-343.

Ball, D. L. & Cohen, D. K. (1999). Developing practice, developing practitioners: Toward a practice-based theory of professional education. In G. Sykes and L. Darling-Hammond (Eds.), Teaching as the learning profession: Handbook of policy and practice (pp. 3-32). San Francisco: Jossey Bass.

Cohen, D.K. (1998). Dewey's problem. The Elementary School Journal, 98(5), 427-446.

Ball, D. L.. & Cohen, D. K. (1996). Reform by the book: what is -- or might be -- the role of curriculum materials in teacher learning and instructional reform? Educational Researcher, 25, 6 - 8, 14.

Cohen, D.K. (1996). Standards-based school reform: Policy, practice, and performance. In H. F. Ladd (Ed.),  Holding Schools Accountable, Washington, D.C: The Brookings Institution.

Cohen, D.K. (1995). What is the system in systemic reform?  Educational Researcher, 24, (9).

Book Chapters

Cohen, D. K. & Ball, D. L. (2007). Innovation and the problem of scale. In B. Schneider & S. McDonald (Eds.) Scale-Up In Education: Ideas in Principle (Volume I), (pp. 19-36). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. An earlier draft of this paper was presented at a 2003 meeting (“Conceptualizing Scale-Up”), sponsored by the Data Research and Development Center of The University of Chicago, and supported by the National Science Foundation, in connection with the Interagency Research Initiative (IERI).

Cohen, D.K. (2005). Professions of human improvement: Predicaments of teaching. In M. Nisan & O Schremer (Eds.), Educational Deliberations. Jerusalem: Keter Publishers.

Cohen, D. K. & Barnes, C. A. (1999). Research and the purposes of education. In E.C. Lagemann & L.S. Shulman (Eds.), Issues in Education Research: Problems and Possibilities. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 17-42.

Cohen, D.K. (1996). Rewarding teachers for student performance. In S. H. Fuhrman and J.A. O'Day, (Eds.),  Reward and Reform, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Cohen, D.K. and Barnes, C.A. (1993). A new pedagogy for policy? In Teaching for Understanding: Challenges for Policy and Practice. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Inc.

Cohen, D.K. Barnes, C.A. (1993). Pedagogy and policy. In Teaching for Understanding: Challenges for Policy and Practice. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Inc.

Cohen, D.K. and Spillane, J. (1992). Policy and practice: The relations between governance and instruction. In G. Grant (Ed.), Review of Research in Education 18, 3-49. Washington, DC: American Educational Research Association.

Cohen, D.K. (1989). Teaching practice:  Plus que ca change....  In  P. W.  Jackson (Ed.),  Contributing to Educational Change:  Perspectives on Research and Practice, Berkeley, CA:  McCutchan, (pp. 27-84).  (Also published in the National Center for Research on Teacher Education, Michigan: Michigan State University, 88-3, September 1988.)

Selected Papers and Technical Reports

Ball, D. L. & Cohen, D. K. (2000). Challenges of improving instruction: A view from the classroom. Washington, DC: Council of Basic Education.

Cohen, D. K. & Ball, D. L. (1999). Instruction, capacity, and improvement. (CPRE Research Report No. RR-043). Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania, Consortium for Policy Research in Education.

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