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I am wondering if any teachers out there think it is necessary for doctoral students to complete an internship and a capstone/dissertation. I understand that if the student is a working teacher in a brick and mortar school those teachers can do an internship in their school district somehow, but if you are mainly a free lance writer/blogger with small sites it is kind of hard to find an internship site. My plans for my dissertation as I think I mentioned is to write a textbook, but I remember after trying for several years to observe in various schools no principal would let me. They usually stated that having that extra person in the classroom would be too distracting for the students. I even stated that I could help the teacher in the classroom and still no luck. Enough of my rant and doing research that I would really like to do. My question is to see if completing a dissertation could replace an internship when a doctoral student is not working as a teacher.