Foreword / Linda Darling-Hammond -- Introduction and overview / Cynthia A. Tyson, Arnetha F. Ball -- Part I: Historical context and persisting challenges: Preparing teachers for diversity -- Diversity and teacher education: a historical perspective on research and policy / Carl Grant and Melissa Gibson -- Creating interdisciplinary multicultural teacher education: courageous leadership is crucial / Valerie Ooka Pang and Cynthia D. Park -- Researching successful efforts in teacher education to diversify teachers / Christine E. Sleeter and H. Richard Milner IV -- The meaning of culture in learning to teach: the power of socialization and identity formation / Etta R. Hollins -- Part II: Current trends and innovations in research on diversity: implications for teacher education -- A. Centering research on diverse populations in teacher education -- Teacher education, struggles for social justice, and the historic erasure of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer lives / Therese Quinn and Erica R. Meiners -- Crossing boundaries, studying diversity: lessons from preservice teachers and urban youth / Valerie Kinloch -- Power in community building: learning from indigenous youth how to strengthen adult-youth relationships in school settings / Patricia D. Quijada Cerecer -- "Something to brag about": black males, literacy, and diversity in teacher education / David E. Kirkland -- Preparing teacher eduction candidates to work with students with disabilities and gifts and talents / Michelle Trotman Scott and Donna Y. Ford -- Researching speakers of nondominant languages in teacher education programs: tapping into perceived barriers to promote teaching and learning in diverse contexts / Mandie Uys, Maryna Reyneke, and Kotie Kaiser -- B. Frameworks, perspectives, and paradigms in research on diversity: implications for research in teacher education -- A critical race theory analysis of past and present institutional processes and policies in teacher education / Thandeka K. Chapman -- "I am large, I contain multitudes": teacher identity as a useful frame for research, practice, and diversity in teacher education / Brad Olsen -- Teaching native youth, teaching about native peoples: shifting the paradigm to socioculturally responsive education / Tiffany S. Lee -- Worthy witnessing: collaborative research in urban classrooms / Maisha T. Winn and Joseph R. Ubiles -- The principal facts: new directions for teacher education / Jeffrey M.R. Duncan-Andrade -- Part III: Future trends and directions: an agenda for the work that still needs to be done -- Embracing complexity and community in research on multicultural teacher education / Kenneth Zeichner -- Teacher education for diversity: policy and politics / Marilyn Cochran-Smith and Kim Fries -- "Placing equity front and center" revisited / Sonia Nieto and Kathy McDonough -- Asking the right questions: a research agenda for studying diversity in teacher education / Gloria Ladson-Billings -- Preparing teachers for diversity in the twenty- first century / Arnetha F. Ball and Cynthia A. Tyson.