Recruiting and retaining a diverse teacher workforce that includes teachers of color is crucial as teachers of color bring distinctive experiences and perspectives that support the learning of all students. However, faced with a national teacher shortage, schools across the country are struggling to hire a workforce of qualified educators that reflects the racial diversity of their communities (Sutcher, Darling-Hammond, & Carver-Thomas, 2016). While conditions in many states have contributed to shortages of teachers of all types, teachers of color encounter unique barriers to entering the profession and continuing to teach for the long haul. Fortunately, a variety of programs, policies, and practices hold promise for helping to bolster the pipeline of teachers of color. This is a summary of a literature review seeks to help readers better understand the research showing the systemic barriers interrupting or blocking pathways into teaching for persons of color and how state and local education agencies can engage certain research-based strategies to overcome those barriers. [For the full report, see ED582730.]