Rethinking the Education Doctorate so that practitioner knowledge is at the center of programmatic concern in teacher education raises provocativeeducation policy/practice considerations. Participants in the national Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED) are doing just this. Theiraccounts of rethinking what counts as educational knowledge and their reconsideration of the roles of teacher educators, scholar-practitioners, students,policy makers, and others are illuminated in this book. Asserting the primacy of practitioner knowledge, the book generates a rich and complexterrain of issues and considerations that participating CPED institutions navigate as multiple technical, normative, and political questions at the crux ofeducator preparation, professional growth, and control of their field. And, it is this terrain that calls attention to the nature of practitioner knowledgeand its inherent potential for redirecting, mediating, and generating education policy. Conversations within and across national and local levels orientaway from technical means-ends "what works" questions alone, and open into normative and political questions about educational value and professionalaction.Chapters by the national CPED leadership team members and accounts that chronicle the specific experiences of seven participating teacher educationprograms and institutions (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, The Pennsylvania State University, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, LynnUniversity, University of Washington Vancouver, University of Colorado Denver, University of Kansas) that share a common commitment to enhancingprofessional knowledge are timely and of interest nationally and globally. Genuine opportunities for professional learning are increasingly at riskwith teacher educators and practitioners often impeded from shaping educational agendas. The sixteen chapters reveal how the CPED initiative hascreated needed room for this disclosure and deliberation. And, with its emphasis on programmatic enactment, CPED positions institutions and participantsinvolved to debate and articulate the issues, and gives shape to programs that hold hope for interrupting reductive "what works" agendas.