Michael Ian Cohen is an assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies in the College of Education and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Northern Colorado, USA. He has served as a high school English teacher and in various administration positions at the school and district levels in New Jersey and Colorado. His scholarship focuses on market-based reforms, New Public Management, educator professionalism, and critical policy studies. He is co-author, with Gary L. Anderson, of The New Democratic Professional in Education: Confronting Markets, Metrics, and Managerialism, published in 2018 by Teachers College Press.