Within this issue of "Teacher Education Quarterly," the authors examined asset-based ideologies and approaches, classroom-based global collaboration, and teachers of color resilience through relationships. This article is a response to those articles and poses the questions: Where can we find remnants of hope, healing, justice, and new…

This article introduces a strategy to diversify the teaching workforce through de-centering teacher education as the primary stakeholder in the preparation of diverse teachers. The article expands the focus on teacher recruitment and retention by proposing a model that counters the educational context of White supremacy through Grow Your Own (GYO)…

This article provides a look into a day in the life of the author, Cheryl Matias, as a Filipina teacher educator teaching White teacher candidates in a White institution. This article focuses on the conceptualization and operationalization of her pedagogy of trauma as a survival mechanism and as a model for other teacher educators of Color who…

The prevailing situation in which students of color represent over one-third of school enrollments, yet teachers of color represent merely one-tenth of the nation's teacher force, is an important yet rarely considered factor amidst the constant claims of teacher shortages. Urban and rural schools struggle with an inadequate supply of teachers, but…

Describes the process of preparing minority teachers in China, a unique program in China's development, and an integral part of what the government describes as socialist modernization. The article explains how education of Chinese minorities is based on historical and philosophical concepts. (SM)

A study examined individual participants in a minority teacher recruitment project (minority instructional aides and high school students), focusing on their needs and the effectiveness of specific retention elements. Surveys and interviews indicated that such teacher recruitment projects can help reverse the trend of decreasing minority…

Introduces this journal issue on teacher supply in the 1990s: eight papers examine teacher internships, teacher recruitment and retention, minority teachers, limited English proficient teacher demands, stress factors in teacher retention, special education teacher shortage, on-the-job special education training, and legislation and support…