Part One: Rethinking Teacher Education.

1. Developing Practice, Developing Practitioners: Toward a Practice-Based Theory of Professional Education, Deborah Loewenberg Ball and David K. Cohen.

2. Aligning Teacher Education with Contemporary K-12 Reform Visions, Magdalene Lampert and Deborah Loewenberg Ball.

3. The Role of Preservice Teacher Education, Mary M. Kennedy.

4. Preparing Teachers for Diversity: Historical Perspectives, Current TrAnds, and Future Directions, Gloria Ladson-Billings.

Part Two: Rethinking Teacher Professional Development.

5. The Essentials of Effective Professional Development: A New Consensus, Willis D. Hawley and Linda Valli.

6. Teacher and Student Learning: Strengthening Their Connection, Gary Sykes.

Part Three: Rethinking Organizations for Teacher Learning.

7. Teacher Recruitment, Selection, and Induction: Policy Influences on the Supply and Quality of Teachers, Linda Darling-Hammond, Barnett T. Berry, David Haselkorn, and Elizabeth Fideler.

8. Organizing Schools for Teacher Learning, Judith Warren Little.

9. Investing in Teacher Learning: Staff Development and Instructional Improvement, Richard F. Elmore and Deanna Burney.

10. Networks and Reform in American Education, Ann Lieberman and Maureen Grolnick.

Part Four: Rethinking Policy for Teacher Learning.

11. Organizing the Other Half of Teaching, Julia E. Koppich and Charles Taylor Kerchner.

12. The Frame and the Tapestry: Standards-Based Reform and Professional Development, Charles L. Thompson and John S. Zeuli.

13. Investing in Teaching as a Learning Profession: Policy Problems and Prospects, Linda Darling-Hammond and Milbrey Wallin McLaughlin.