The hopes and dreams for our shared JTE editorship began 6 years ago over three bowls of tortilla soup. During that lunchtime meeting, through deliberation and debate, we formed our editorial vision statement. Scanning the professional horizon in fall 2003, we character...

Earlier in 2008 two national reports were released that address teacher quality and teacher education for mathematics: In March, the National Mathematics Advisory Panel (NMAP, 2008b) issued Foundations for Success, and in June, the National Council on Teacher Quality (N...

In June 2009 the New Teacher Project released its latest report, The Widget Effect: Our National Failure to Acknowledge and Act on Differences in Teacher Effectiveness (Weisberg, Sexton, Mulhern, & Keeling, 2009). Published a few months earlier, Larry Cuban's Hugging th...

In past editorials (Vol. 59, Nos. 1 and 5), we've argued that teacher educators should embrace the liberal arts and humanities and that teacher education candidates would benefit from being "liberally" educated. We're aware that what we've proposed goes against the grai...