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This collection is based on two studies of approaches to increasing the supply of minority teachers. The first was a documentation study of programs supported by the Ford Foundation Minority Education Demonstration Project designed to attract minority candidates, prepare them well, and present model programs. The second study described a range of innovative programs to recruit or prepare large numbers of minority teachers. The following papers are included: (1) "Restructuring Teacher Education for Diversity: The Innovative Curriculum" (Ana Maria Villegas); (2) "Reaching Out to Schools" (Beatriz Chu Clewell); (3) "Creating a Path between Two- and Four-Year Colleges" (Bernice Taylor Anderson and Margaret E. Goertz); (4) "Bringing Teacher Assistants into Teacher Education Programs" (Myra Ficklen Joy and Barbara A. Bruschi); and (5) "Discussion Remarks on Teacher Diversity" (Jacqueline Jordan Irvine). An appendix contains site descriptions for programs described in Chapter 1. (Chapter 1 contains 56 references, and Chapter 5 contains 5.) (SLD)

This book examines what is needed to accomplish the task of staffing U.S. schools with culturally responsive teachers, discussing the specific elements of teacher education programs needed for the country's diverse public schools. The book focuses on the importance of recruiting and preparing a diverse teaching force, proposing a vision for restructuring the teacher education curriculum, reconceiving the pedagogy used to prepare prospective teachers, and transforming the institutional context in order to support the recommended curricular and pedagogical changes. It explains that the typical response of adding a course or two on multicultural education without altering the established teacher education curriculum cannot meet the goal of culturally responsive teaching. Five chapters focus on: (1) "The Shifting Demographic Landscape"; (2) "Developing Fundamental Orientations for Teaching a Hanging Student Population"; (3) "Fostering Culturally Responsive Teaching"; (4) "Modeling the Practice of Culturally Responsive Teaching"; and (5) "The Institutional Context Needed To Educate Culturally Responsive Teachers." The book includes exemplary practices that offer guidance for educators in their work of restructuring teacher education for diversity. (Contains approximately 600 references.) (SM)