This booklet provides information intended to contribute to the business community's knowledge about major issues and goals of teacher education. In addition, the booklet offers specific suggestions on ways corporate funders, concerned about the quality of classroom teachers, can develop and support appropriate projects to promote better teacher preparation. Business leaders can: (1) help design more effective general education curricula; (2) make sure teachers know a variety of ways to teach; (3) create a model teacher education program; (4) recruit top-quality students; and (5) link teacher education with school reform. Specific strategies which are discussed include: helping to create effective clinical schools; providing scholarships and fellowships to future teachers; developing new teaching assessment models; setting up an individual partnership program between employees and teacher education programs; and developing case studies for future teachers. (IAH)