Recently added articles from Teacher Education Quarterly:

Guest editors' introduction: diversifying the teaching force.(Editorial)

Sep 22, 2007; Sleeter, Christine ... This special issue of Teacher Education Quarterly explores how teacher education programs can help to diversify the teaching force, mainly by featuring programs that have done so. It is widely recognized that the demographic gap between students and teachers is large and growing. In 2004, ...

The M/M Center: meeting the demand for multicultural, multilingual teacher preparation.

Sep 22, 2007; Wong, Pia Lindquist ... The Multilingual/Multicultural Teacher Preparation Center (M/M Center), a teacher preparation program offered by the Bilingual/Multicultural Education Department (BMED) at California State University, Sacramento, is entering its third decade of operation. The M/M Center was established by ...

The pathways program: a model for increasing the number of teachers of color.(Report)

Sep 22, 2007; Lau, Kam Fui ... Introduction According to the Alliance for Excellent Education (2005), an accumulation of teaching personnel data reveals that teacher retention is a costly expense to individual states and to the nation. Yearly, thousands of teachers leave the profession or change schools in ...

Increasing the supply of Latino bilingual teachers for the Chicago public schools.(Report)

Sep 22, 2007; Sakash, Karen ... I did not believe I would be the "great Latino savior." I would be me. I decided to teach in the public school system where I felt the students would need someone like me. As it turned out, I ended up where I belonged, in the Mexican community, helping nurture young minds and giving ...

Academy for teacher excellence: recruting, preparing, and retaining Latino teachers through learning communities.(Report)

Sep 22, 2007; Flores, Belinda Bustos ... Research supports the importance of ethnic minority teachers as role models for diverse populations (Zirkel, 2002). Quiocho and Rios (2000) poignantly argue that minority teachers bring a unique critical perspective to schooling because of their personal experiences. Equitable ethnic ...

A bridge for our children: tribal/university partnerships to prepare indigenous teachers.(Report)

Sep 22, 2007; White, Carolyne J. ... ... my mother instructs us to be a bridge for our children between the two worlds by teaching them the richness of the Navajo culture and language. --Salita Begay (1) Being Hopi is more than identity, it is a way of thinking, viewing, and life. --Samantha ...

"Home-growing" teachers of color: lessons learned from a town-gown partnership.(Report)

Sep 22, 2007; Irizarry, Jason G. ... Many institutions that prepare teachers profess a commitment to issues of diversity and educational equity in their mission and vision statements. However, despite the fact that the enrollment of students of color in institutions of higher education has increased by 48% over the last ten ...

Project FUTURE: opening doors to diverse West Texas teachers.(Report)

Sep 22, 2007; Stevens, Tara ... Project FUTURE is one component of a multifaceted approach in the Northwest Texas region to target Hispanic and African-American youth, encouraging them to go through school with a desire to complete education programs leading to professional credentialing in teaching. Project FUTURE ...

Analyzing an urban university's diversity dilemma.(Report)

Sep 22, 2007; Landis, Melodee ... Lack of diversity in the teaching force is proving to be a grievous problem for our country. Across the nation the percentage of teachers of color in our schools remains stagnant as the percentage of students of color increases (Gay, Dingus & Jackson, 2003; Gordon, 2000; Gursky, 1999) ....

Approaches to diversifying the teaching force: attending to issues of recruitment, preparation, and retention.(Report)

Sep 22, 2007; Villegas, Ana Maria ... The widening cultural chasm between teachers and students in elementary and secondary schools is a serious problem in American education demanding concerted action. As the works in this special issue of Teacher Education Quarterly make clear, the shortage of teachers of color has real ...