Educating the Emerging Majority: The Role of Minority-Serving Colleges and Universities in Confronting America's Teacher Crisis

While approximately 37 percent of the U.S. school population is now comprised of students of color, classroom teachers are not broadly representative of the students they teach—nine out of 10 K-12 teachers are White. Attaining the goal of increasing the number of well-trained teachers of color is the responsibility of all colleges and universities in the United States, but minority-serving institutions along with Historically Black Colleges and Universities and other Predominantly Black Institutions, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, and Tribal Colleges and Universities are a critical and little understood hub in the wheel of teacher-education programs and schools.