[1][2] He then served as director of the Race and Education Project, an initiative of the United States Commission on Civil Rights.
[3] During his time at Harvard, Cohen served concurrently as president of the Huron Institute.
[1][2] He taught at Michigan State University between 1986 and 1993, as the John Hannah Chair within the Department of Education.
[2] 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.
[2] Cohen was a member of the first board of directors convened by the Albert Shanker Institute, and remained in that position for twenty years.