Localized Teacher Recruitment Through Grow-Your-Own: Impacts of the High School Teacher Academy of Maryland Program

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Blazar, David; Gao, Wenjing; Gershenson, Seth; Goings, Ramon; Lagos, Francisco
• 署名单位: University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; American University; IZA Institute Labor Economics; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland Baltimore County; Inter-American Development Bank
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF POLICY ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1520-6688
• DOI: 10.1002/pam.70084
• 发表日期: 2026-01-14
• 页码: e70084
• 关键词: Career and Technical Education; College major choice; earnings; high school curricula; occupational choice; teaching; student-achievement; career; disadvantage; preferences; WHITENESS; education; RACE

摘要

Recruiting teachers via grow-your-own (GYO) programs is a popular, yet rarely evaluated, strategy for addressing local workforce shortages and ensuring that incoming teachers resemble, understand, and have strong connections to their communities. We provide novel evidence on the impacts of one such GYO program by exploiting the staggered rollout of the Teacher Academy of Maryland (TAM) Career and Technical Education (CTE) program across public high schools. Exposed students were more likely to become teachers a decade later by 0.6 percentage points (pp), or 45%. Effects were concentrated among White girls (1.4pp/39%) and Black girls (0.7pp/82%), though boys benefitted too (0.2pp/59%). Although White girls induced by the program to become teachers often did so in the same district they attended as students (0.9pp/43%)-a key goal of GYO and localized teacher recruitment programs-this was less common for Black girls. Rather, Black girls induced by the program to become teachers did so in districts with more Black teachers than their home district (0.4pp/143%) and in districts with higher starting salaries (0.5pp/239%). Access to the program also increased wages (5% on average/18% for Black girls), challenging the narrative that such programs cause students to forego more lucrative professions.