We Are Gonna Miss Too Many of Them”
Rurality, Race, and the History of Grow Your Own Teacher Programs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11366167 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Scott Gelber (0000-0002-8515-7474, Wheaton College - Massachusetts, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 129 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 29-51 |
| Publication date | 2022-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0195-6744 • E-ISSN: 1549-6511 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/721860 |
| OpenAlex | W4304589901 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 40 |
This article employs historical methodology to explore the evolution of Grow Your Own (GYO) teacher programs. These initiatives, which continue to rank among the most popular methods of teacher recruitment, originated as “future teacher” clubs designed to attract students into the profession during a severe staffing shortage that occurred during the 1940s and 1950s. In that era, recruiters attempted to hook students with appeals to the joy of working with children and a conservative version of public service. During the 1970s, recruiters shifted their language to reflect the emergence of a more progressive iteration of youth culture. However, when viewed over the long term, the newer invocations of teacher activism seem like a reformulation of traditional appeals to patriotism. In particular, supporters of GYO programs continued to hope that rural students and students of color would be especially receptive to a nonmaterial emphasis on civic duty. Despite these earnest efforts, future teacher clubs had a relatively modest impact on recruitment. This history provides a cautionary reminder of a widespread tendency to attribute teacher behavior to personal qualities rather than structural forces
Alternative teacher certification · Curran · Duty · Economic shortage · Government (linguistics · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Race (biology · Sociology · Staffing · Teacher education · Critical Race Theory in Education · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
Their Highest Potential
Teacher Education and the Struggle for Social Justice
Effects of Inequality and Poverty vs. Teachers and Schooling on America's Youth
Representation in the classroom
Constructing and Reconstructing the “Rural School Problem”
Recruiting and Retaining High-Quality Teachers in Rural Areas
Teacher Recruitment and Retention
Who believes in me? The effect of student–teacher demographic match on teacher expectations
Hometown Disadvantage? It Depends on Where You’re From
A Tale of Two Types of Schools
Blaming Teachers
Retaining Teachers of Color
A Teacher Like Me
Teachers, Race, and Student Achievement in a Randomized Experiment
Teaching as a profession and as a career
The Critical Educators of Color Pipeline
Racial Diversity Sounds Nice; Systems Transformation? Not So Much
Learning Together
The Displacement of Black Educators Post- Brown
The Country School
Breakthrough in Teacher Education
Missing Teachers, Impaired Communities
Changing the Narrative on Diversifying the Teaching Workforce
Examining Grow Your Own Programs Across the Teacher Development Continuum
Why Students of Color Are Not Entering Teaching
Recruitment for Elementary School Teaching
School Teacher
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |