Ed.D.

[ ed-dee ]

abbreviation for

, plural Ed.D.s

1. the highest degree, a doctorate, awarded by a graduate school in the study of education, usually to a person who has completed at least three years of graduate study and a dissertation approved by a committee of professors.
2. a person who has been awarded this degree.

Example Sentences

"The neuropathologies of Alzheimer's disease have been found in the brains of older drivers killed in motor vehicle accidents who did not even know they had the disease and had no apparent signs of it," said Ruth Tappen, Ed.D., principal investigator, senior author and the Christine E. Lynn Eminent Scholar and Professor, FAU Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing.

From Science Daily

Finn went on to get an Ed.D. in educational policy and become a much-quoted sage as professor of education and public policy at Vanderbilt University, U.S. assistant secretary of education, senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, president of the nonprofit Thomas B. Fordham Foundation in Washington and several other assignments.

From Washington Post

Ed.D., etc., from Adam Gidwitz’s delightful children’s book series “The Unicorn Rescue Society,” which began in 2018.

From New York Times

"This is a scrumptious, edible confection to create with your kids," says the recipe creator Karen Aronian, Ed.D., who runs an educating design firm, Aronian Education Design LLC.

From Fox News

Last month the Wall Street Journal published an opinion piece essentially mocking Jill Biden, who has an Ed.D., for her use of the title “Dr.”

From Scientific American