NOTE: Major refers to a teacher’s primary fields of study for a bachelor’s, master’s, doctorate, first-professional, or education specialist degree. Major field can be an academic or education major. “High-minority” refers to schools in which 75 percent or more of their enrollments are minority students; “low-minority” refers to schools with a minority enrollment of less than 10 percent. “High-poverty” refers to a school in which 75 percent or more of students are eligible to participate in the federal free or reduced-price lunch program, a common proxy measure of poverty; “low-poverty” refers to schools in which less than 10 percent of students are eligible to participate in this program. See supplemental note 1 for more information on poverty.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, NCES, Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), 1999–2000, “Public School Survey” and “Public Charter School Survey.”