Dr. Lora Cohen-Vogel
Assistant Professor
Short Biography
Lora Cohen-Vogel, an assistant professor of education policy, joined the faculty of Florida State University in 2002. She holds a Ph.D. in Leadership and Policy Studies from Vanderbilt University (2002).
Professor Cohen-Vogel’s teaching and research focus on the political antecedents of education policy, and the governance structures that facilitate or impede policy adoption, implementation and effectiveness. She has recently completed an AERA-funded study comparing current arguments for alternative teacher certification with data from the Schools and Staffing Survey. Currently, she is also leading a project funded by the Spencer Foundation into the ways teachers are assigned to schools and classrooms. Her articles have been published in the American Journal of Educational Research, the American Journal of Education, Educational Administration Quarterly, Educational Policy, and the Journal of Educational Finance, among others.
Professor Cohen-Vogel serves on the advisory board for the Peabody Journal of Education and is a former co-editor of the Politics of Education Yearbook.
Classes Taught
Politics of Education
Policy Development in Education
Case Studies in Education Policy
Federal Role in Education
Selected Publications
Cohen-Vogel, L. & T. Smith. (2007). Alternative teacher certification: Testing core assumptions. American Educational Research Journal
Cohen-Vogel, L & L. Osborne-Lampkin. (2007). Allocating quality: Collective bargaining agreements and administrative discretion over teacher assignment. Educational Administration Quarterly, 43.
Cohen-Vogel, L. & H. Hunt. (2007). Governing quality in teacher education: Deconstructing federal text and talk. American Journal of Education, 114 (1).
Cohen-Vogel, L., Ingle, K., Albee, A. & M. Spence. (In press). The “spread” of merit-based college aid: Politics, policy consortia and interstate competition. Educational Policy.
Ingle, K.+, Cohen-Vogel, L. & Hughes, R. (In press). The public policy process among Southeastern states: Elaborating theories of regional adoption and hold-out behavior. Policy Studies Journal, 36 (1).
Cohen-Vogel, L. & Ingle, K*. (2007). When neighbours matter most: Innovation, diffusion and state policy adoption in tertiary education. Journal of Education Policy, 22 (3), 241 – 262.
Cohen-Vogel, L. & M. McLendon. (Forthcoming). New approaches to understanding federal involvement in education. In D. Plank, G. Sykes, and B. Schneider (Eds.), Handbook of Education Policy Research. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
McLendon, M. & L. Cohen-Vogel. (Forthcoming). Understanding educational policy-making in the American states: Lessons from political science. In B.S. Cooper, L. Fusarelli, and J. Cibulka (Eds.), Understanding the Politics of K-12 Education: A Handbook of Theory, Applications, and Reform. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Goldring, E., Cohen-Vogel, L, & C. Smrekar. (2006). Neighborhood capacity in the postbusing era: What does “closer to home” really mean for families and schools? American Journal of Education, 112 (3).
Cohen-Vogel, L. (2005). Federal role in teacher quality: “Redefinition” or policy alignment? Educational Policy, 19 (1).
Cohen-Vogel, L. & Herrington, C. (2005). Teacher and leadership preparation and development: No stranger to politics. Educational Policy, 19 (1).
Cohen-Vogel, L. (2003). Coupling public school choice and accountability: Implications for school governance. Peabody Journal of Education, 78 (4).
Cohen-Vogel, L. (2003). Terry Moe’s Schools, Vouchers and Public Opinion and Paul Peterson and David Campbell’s Charters, Vouchers, and America’s Schools (Double book review). Journal of Education for Students Placed At-Risk, 8 (4).
Smrekar, C. & Cohen-Vogel, L. (2001). The voices of parents: Rethinking the intersection of family and schools, Peabody Journal of Education, 76 (2).
Cohen-Vogel, L. & Cohen-Vogel, D. (2000). School finance reform in Tennessee: Inching towards adequacy. Journal of Education Finance, 26 (3).