Participants in the "Beyond the Looking Glass" Conference established a set of objectives for each of the three teacher education constituencies: practice, policy, and research. The teacher education continuum of preservice, induction, and inservice served as one dimension of a framework for structuring dialogue, discussion, and decision-making activities of the participants during the 3-day conference. The major conference goals were: (1) the identification of the current pressing issues facing teacher education; (2) the structuring of priority recommendations and critical warnings that should be addressed in the immediate future by policymakers, practitioners, and researchers in teacher education; and (3) the facilitation of communication among those who form policy in teacher education, those who educate teachers at institutions of higher learning and elsewhere, and those who conduct research in teacher education. The culminating sessions of the conference focused on and highlighted work currently unfolding at the state level. This publication contains papers commissioned by the conference from scholars in each of the teacher education areas of preservice, induction, and inservice. Within each area, the three perspectives of policy, practice and research were provided by colleagues. (JD)