| Table 72. | Percent of vocational and nonvocational public school teachers ofgrades 9 to 12, by selected demographic and educational characteristics: 1993-94 |
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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 | | | |
|______|______|______|Major field of study | | |
Sex | | | | Business and management .| 1.1 | 0.7 | 6.5
Male ...............| 48.3 | 46.2 | 63.2 | Education ...............|52.4 | 50.3 | 75.2
Female .............| 51.7 | 53.8 | 36.8 | Academic area .........|26.7 | 28.6 | 5.3
| | | | English education ...| 5.2 | 5.7 | 0.3
Race/ethnicity | | | | Music education ....| 3.4 | 3.7 | 0.2
White ..............| 88.8 | 88.9 | 88.5 | Physical education .| 9.1 | 9.5 | 3.8
Black ..............| 6.0 | 5.9 | 7.1 | Other academic area .| 9.0 | 9.7 | 1.0
Hispanic ...........| 3.4 | 3.5 | 2.8 | Administration .......| 5.3 | 5.1 | 7.0
Asian ..............| 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.8 | General ...............| 4.5 | 4.6 | 3.3
American Indian or | | | | Special education .....| 6.8 | 7.3 | 1.3
Alaska Native ....| 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.8 | Vocational education ..| 6.5 | 3.7 | 37.2
| | | | Other education ......| 7.9 | 6.7 | 21.5
Age | | | | English ................| 4.1 | 4.4 | 0.3
Under 30 years .....| 9.8 | 10.3 | 6.4 | Foreign language .......| 4.7 | 5.1 | 0.1
30 to 39 years .....| 22.1 | 22.3 | 20.8 | Mathematics ............| 3.2 | 3.5 | 0.6
40 to 49 years .....| 40.7 | 40.7 | 40.6 | Sciences ...............| 7.8 | 8.1 | 4.3
50 years and over ..| 27.5 | 26.8 | 32.2 | Social sciences and | | |
| | | | history ..............|10.0 | 10.7 | 1.8
| | | | Visual and performing | | |
Highest college degree| | | | arts .................| 2.6 | 2.7 | 1.0
Less than a | | | | Other ...................| 6.1 | 6.2 | 5.5
bachelor's degree.| 1.7 | 0.5 | 10.3 | | | |
Bachelor's degree ..| 46.6 | 47.0 | 43.5 |Age at which first began | | |
Master's degree ....| 45.4 | 46.2 | 39.8 | to teach full-time or | | |
Education | | | | part-time | | |
specialist .......| 5.3 | 5.2 | 5.6 | 25 or under ...........|75.7 | 75.6 | 76.5
Doctorate or first | | | | 26 to 35 ..............|22.1 | 22.1 | 21.7
professional .....| 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 36 to 45 ..............| 2.2 | 2.2 | 1.9
| | | | 46 to 55 ..............| 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0
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NOTE: Education specialist degrees or certificates are generally awarded for one year's work beyond the master's level. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, "Schools and Staffing Survey, 1993-94." (This table was prepared September 1996.)
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