Editors' Introduction

ABSTRACT

Medina's summary article offers continued probes into who should be allowed to teach our nation's children and our most enduring priorities of attracting, preparing, cultivating, and retaining teachers. [...]utilizing the s submitted by the authors, descriptions of the four articles offer different perspectives from multiple settings. [...]these findings have implications for special education teacher preparation for edTPA and therefore future research is proposed. In closing, we quote from Dr. Medina's response article in this ussue that summarizes our current state of teacher education "In these times we are living and teaching (eg., school closures, global pandemic, racial injustice, environmental collapse, etc.), our most enduring priority continues to be about attracting, preparing, cultivating, and retaining teachers appropriately.