ABSTRACT
Currently, about two-thirds of teachers in the US are prepared in college and university programs while the other one-third are prepared in relatively new non-university programs run by school districts, nonprofit and for-profit private providers, and by various combinations of different stakeholders. Over the last decade, teacher education programs in colleges and university have come under increasing attack from a variety of critics including the former US Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan. While college and university teacher education programs, in part because of state standards and national accreditation requirements, now include coursework in multicultural education and clinical placements in schools highly impacted by poverty, research has continued to show an overwhelming bias of whiteness that frames discourse and practices in many college and university programs. Teacher education 3.0 rejects the choice that is now being provided in current policy debates.
