The Education Specialist, Educational Specialist, Specialist in Education, or Ed.S.academic degree in the US is designed for individuals who wish to develop skills or increase knowledge beyond the master's degree level. Most individuals that earn an Ed.S. degree seek to increase their skills for advanced certification requirements or other professional objectives. For example, experienced teachers, counselors, and administrators pursue an Ed.S. degree while meeting state or professional requirements for career advancement. The Ed.S. degree is considered a terminal degree just like a doctorate.
While the Ed.S. degree is considered "beyond" the master's degree level, many outside educational settings do not recognize or acknowledge it. Whereas master's degree holders will be guaranteed advancement and granted movement up the salary scale, the Ed.S. degree holder may be ignored by managers and executives.
Ed Stevens is a contracts lawyer at a high-profile New York City firm.
Around the same time he splits with his wife (she slept with a mailman), he makes a single error in punctuation when going over a contract; and because of the resulting financial loss to the firm, he's fired.
Ed returns to his hometown to pursue his career and his high school sweetheart.
The show revolved around Cavanagh's Ed Stevens, a hotshot New York lawyer who on the same day is both fired from his job (for a misplaced comma that cost the firm $1.6 million) and discovers that his wife is sleeping with the mailman.
Ed had a number of running gags, such as Phil (Michael Ian Black) hatching ludicrous schemes usually to gain fame and/or fortune, and ten-dollar bets between Ed and Mike that would require one of them to do something extremely embarrassing.
Ed creators/executive producers Jon Beckerman and Rob Burnett made a cameo appearance as reception guests at Carol and Ed’s wedding in the final episode.