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Table 72. Percent of vocational and nonvocational public school teachers of grades 9 to 12, by selected demographic and educational characteristics: 1999-2000

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                          |            |Teacher type             |                               |          |Teacher type
     Characteristics      |            |_________________________|        Characteristics        |          |_________________________
       of teachers        |Total       | Non-       |Voca-       |          of teachers          |Total     | Non-       |Voca-
                          |            |voca-       |tional      |                               |          |voca-       |tional
                          |            |tional      |            |                               |          |tional      |
                          |            |            |            |                               |          |            |
__________________________|____________|____________|____________|_______________________________|__________|____________|____________
            1             |  2         |  3         |  4         |               1               |  2       |  3         |  4
__________________________|____________|____________|____________|_______________________________|__________|____________|____________
   Total .................|100.0   --- |100.0   --- |100.0   --- |                               |          |            |
                          |____________|____________|____________|                               |          |            |
Sex                       |            |            |            |Undergraduate field of study\1\|          |            |
  Male ...................| 45.2  (0.4)| 43.6  (0.4)| 56.9  (1.1)|  Business and management .....| 2.5 (0.2)|  1.5  (0.1)| 11.2  (0.8)
  Female .................| 54.8  (0.4)| 56.4  (0.4)| 43.1  (1.1)|  Education ...................|53.5 (0.4)| 51.7  (0.4)| 68.0  (1.1)
                          |            |            |            |    Academic area .............|33.1 (0.3)| 36.1  (0.4)|  8.1  (0.1)
Race/ethnicity            |            |            |            |      English education .......| 5.6 (0.1)|  6.1  (0.1)|  0.7  (0.2)
  White, non-Hispanic ....| 86.1  (0.3)| 86.2  (0.4)| 85.3  (0.8)|      Music education  ........| 2.3 (0.1)|  2.6  (0.1)|  0.1  (0.1)
  Black, non-Hispanic ....|  6.5  (0.2)|  6.3  (0.3)|  7.8  (0.6)|      Physical education  .....| 8.9 (0.2)|  9.6  (0.2)|  2.9  (0.4)
  Hispanic ...............|  5.1  (0.2)|  5.2  (0.2)|  4.6  (0.6)|      Other academic area .....|16.4 (0.3)| 19.2  (0.3)|  4.3  (0.1)
  Asian/Pacific Islander .|  1.3  (0.1)|  1.4  (0.1)|  0.8  (0.1)|    Administration  ...........|(\2\)(\2\)|(\2\) (\2\) |(\2\) (\2\)
  American Indian or      |            |            |            |    General ...................| 8.1 (0.2)|  8.6  (0.2)|  4.1  (0.5)
    Alaska Native ........|  1.0  (0.1)|  1.0  (0.1)|  1.5  (0.2)|    Special education .........| 4.4 (0.1)|  4.8  (0.2)|  1.1  (0.2)
                          |            |            |            |    Vocational education ......| 7.3 (0.2)|  1.6  (0.1)| 53.9  (1.2)
Age                       |            |            |            |    Other education  ..........| 0.5    # |  0.5     # |  0.8  (0.2)
  Under 30 years .........| 16.0  (0.3)| 17.1  (0.3)|  8.4  (0.6)|  English  ....................| 7.5 (0.2)|  8.3  (0.2)|  1.5  (0.3)
  30 to 39 years .........| 21.6  (0.3)| 22.1  (0.4)| 17.7  (0.9)|  Foreign language  ...........| 3.9 (0.1)|  4.3  (0.2)|  0.1  (0.1)
  40 to 49 years .........| 30.6  (0.3)| 30.0  (0.4)| 35.3  (1.1)|  Mathematics  ................| 5.1 (0.1)|  5.7  (0.2)|  0.2  (0.1)
  50 years and over ......| 31.7  (0.4)| 30.8  (0.4)| 38.6  (1.1)|  Sciences  ...................| 8.1 (0.2)|  9.0  (0.2)|  0.7  (0.1)
                          |            |            |            |  Social sciences and          |          |            |
                          |            |            |            |    history ...................| 9.5 (0.2)| 10.2  (0.2)|  3.4  (0.4)
Highest college degree    |            |            |            |  Visual and performing        |          |            |
  Less than a             |            |            |            |    arts  .....................| 4.2 (0.2)|  4.5  (0.2)|  1.7  (0.3)
    bachelor's degree.....|  1.7  (0.1)|  0.5  (0.1)| 10.6  (0.7)|  Other .......................| 5.7 (0.2)|  4.8  (0.2)| 13.0  (0.8)
  Bachelor's degree ......| 48.4  (0.4)| 48.9  (0.4)| 44.6  (1.1)|                               |          |            |
  Master's degree ........| 45.4  (0.4)| 46.0  (0.4)| 41.0  (1.1)|Age at which first began       |          |            |
  Education               |            |            |            |  to teach full-time or        |          |            |
    specialist ...........|  3.2  (0.1)|  3.2  (0.1)|  3.2  (0.4)|  part-time                    |          |            |
  Doctorate or first      |            |            |            |    25 or under ...............|62.2 (0.4)| 63.6  (0.4)| 51.5  (1.1)
    professional .........|  1.3  (0.1)|  1.4  (0.1)|  0.6  (0.1)|    26 to 35 ..................|25.8 (0.3)| 25.3  (0.3)| 29.7  (1.0)
                          |            |            |            |    36 to 45 ..................| 9.3 (0.2)|  8.5  (0.2)| 15.1  (0.8)
                          |            |            |            |    46 to 55 ..................| 2.5 (0.1)|  2.4  (0.1)|  3.3  (0.4)
                          |            |            |            |    56 or over ................| 0.2    # |  0.2     # |  0.4  (0.1)
__________________________|____________|____________|____________|_______________________________|__________|____________|____________

---Not available.

# Rounds to 0.0.
\1\Data are for bachelor's degrees and major fields of study only. Excludes additional undergraduate majors or degrees.
\2\Too few observations to permit a reliable estimate.

NOTE: Education specialist degrees or certificates are generally awarded for one year's work beyond the master's level. Detail may not sum to totals due to rounding. Standard errors appear in parentheses.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), "Public Teacher Questionnaire," and "Charter Teacher Questionnaire," 1999-2000." (This table was prepared July 2002.)


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