Q: What is the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED)?A: The Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED) is a network of over 150 colleges and schools of education in the United States and Canada dedicated to improving the Doctor of Education (EdD) degree. Established in 2007, CPED helps institutions redesign their EdD programs to better prepare advanced practitioners and educational leaders for real-world challenges. Q: How does CPED support EdD programs?A: CPED provides a framework for program improvement that includes a new definition of the EdD, guiding principles for program development, and design concepts that shape curriculum and instruction. This framework helps schools of education create high-quality, practice-focused EdD programs. August 2025 Issue of Impacting Education
The August 2025 issue of Impacting Education (Vol. 10 No. 3), guest edited by Vachel Miller and Star Brown, explores the evolving landscape of EdD scholarship. This themed issue—The Present and Future of EdD Alternative Dissertations—highlights how programs are moving beyond the traditional five-chapter model to embrace dissertations-in-practice, public scholarship, portfolios, multimedia projects, and other innovative approaches that bridge research and practice to address real-world problems. Articles in this special issue examine models such as three-chapter DiPs, dossier-style dissertations, multi-paper ePortfolios, documentary filmmaking, joint dissertations of practice, Black feminist reframings of the EdD landscape, and more. Collectively, these contributions imagine new possibilities for how doctoral research can serve communities, advance professional practice, and inspire change. The guest editors will host a webinar this fall for CPED members to further explore the themes of this special issue.
Read HereOur Book Series: The Coming of Age of the Education DoctorateThe mission of The Coming of Age of the Education Doctorate series is to present volumes of research and work focused on the redesign of the Education Doctorate (EdD) and the past 16+ years that faculty and schools of education around the US and the world have made to professionalize this degree for the advanced preparation of educational practitioners. Specifically, this series highlights efforts to enhance and enrich the purpose, curriculum, and milestone experiences in the EdD in addition to highlighting the work of those who have graduated from redesigned EdD programs. The books in this series support EdD program development and improvement. To view the full series and purchase books, check out Myers Education Press, our CPED partner.
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