The Editor: Boyce C. Williams is Vice President at the National Counsel for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) and founding Project Director and Principal Investigator for the Reading First Teacher Education Network (RFTEN). She served as Project Director of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Technical Support Network as well as Project Director for the NCATE/National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Partnership for Graduate Programs. Dr. Williams earned her Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Michigan State University. She served as editor of the book Reforming Teacher Education through Accreditation: Telling Our Story, and has authored numerous articles and monographs on issues related to quality teacher preparation and student learning, accountability, assessment and diversity.