Chapter 11: Leadership for Educational Equity: Opportunities and Tensions of a New Doctorate of Education

The doctoral faculty members at University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver) take seriously the caveats of Seymour Sarason (1990) concerning the predictable failure of educational reform and the suggestion of Tyack and Cuban (1995) that tinkering can be a more viable approach than outright redesign. Recent events, however, caused CU Denver doctoral faculty to radically redesign our school-wide Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) program and to develop a new Doctor of Education (EdD) in Leadership for Educational Equity. This chapter describes those efforts as well as the role our participation in the Carnegie Project for the Education Doctorate (CPED) has played.