This book highlights the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED) efforts to prepare Scholarly Practitioners in education leadership. Edited by Jill Alexa Perry, it features contributions from CPED faculty and graduates, discussing rethinking doctoral preparation, enhancing research, and the impact on professional practice.

The purpose of this book is to highlight the efforts of the members of the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED) to prepare Scholarly Practitioners in the field of education leadership. The volume is edited by Jill Alexa Perry, Executive Director of CPED, a consortium of 86 schools of education in the US, Canada and New Zealand. CPED is a collaboration of faculty working together since 2007 to re-envision professional practice preparation in education. Contributing authors include faculty and graduates from CPED-influenced programs. Faculty members highlight the need to rethink and strengthen all aspects of doctoral level preparation for practitioners, the expanded and enhanced role of research, inquiry and the dissertation in practice, and discuss the implications these changes have on university schools of education. Students and graduates, who face pressing educational issues in their daily lives, reflect on the impact their EdD program has had on their professional practice.