This collection of papers describes pre-collegiate and collegiate programs that are models for successful minority teacher recruitment and preparation. The papers include: "Correcting the Minority Teacher Shortage: Framing the Issue, Meeting the Challenge" (Elaine P. Witty); "Response of the Southern Education Foundation to the Minority Teacher Shortage in the South" (Nathaniel Jackson and Wiley S. Bolden); "Recruiting and Retaining Minorities in Teacher Education: Implementing the Value-Added Approach" (Saundra N. Shorter and Zoe W. Locklear); "Measures of Persistence and Success: A Profile of Paraeducators, Attributes and Behaviors that Supported Completion of Teacher Licensure in the North Carolina Consortium" (Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran, Barbara L. Johnson, Barbara Perry-Sheldon, and Leila Vickers); "The Summer Scholars Program: Historically Black Colleges/Universities and Leading Graduate Schools of Education Collaborating to Increase the Quality and Supply of African American Teachers" (A. Lin Goodwin); "Building the Minority Teacher Pipeline: The Grambling State University Experience with Precollegiate Programming in the Louisiana Consortium" (Mary Davis Minter and Deborah Gilliam); and "Where Do We Go from Here: Diversity in Teaching and School Leadership" (Leslie T. Fenwick). (SM)