This paper is an trial to understand the main issues of teacher education programs as the problems
of cutting public budget resulting from the concentration of wealth in the US. The public budget cut
is making the problems of the areas which cannot choose but rely on the public budget deteriorate.
The traditional teacher education programs based on universities, which are trying to make the close
relationship between theories and practices, between universities and schools to develop the
professionalism of teachers for ‘Education for All’, are in crisis. The alternative teacher education
programs such as ‘Teach for America’ which is supplying workers who graduate the famous
universities, and are trained by a short course, are expanding while the traditional teacher education
programs cannot counteract the problem of teachers' leaving from urban schools. The universities
which have had the traditional teacher education programs are trying to shorten the programs rather
than to improve the quality of them for promoting the professionalism of teachers. This situation of
the US lets us prospect that the trend of deepening of social inequality would lead
de-professionalizing of teachers. Furthermore it suggests that it is necessary to prepare for that kind
of situation in South Korea.