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  Subject in which largest portion  |1966 |1971 | 1976 |1981  | 1986 | 1991 | 1996 | 2001
     of teaching time was spent     |     |     |      |      |      |      |      |
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                 1                  |  2  |  3  |  4   |  5   |  6   |  7   |  8   |  9
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  Total secondary school teachers,  |     |     |      |      |      |      |      |
     in thousands ..................|  746|  927| 1,016|   995|   970| 1,012| 1,049| 1,173
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                                    |           Percentage distribution, by subject taught
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   All subjects ....................|100.0|100.0| 100.0| 100.0| 100.0| 100.0| 100.0| 100.0
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Agriculture ........................|  1.6|  0.6|   0.6|   1.1|   0.6|   0.3|   0.5|   0.8
Art ................................|  2.0|  3.7|   2.4|   3.1|   1.5|   2.6|   3.3|   2.5
Business education .................|  7.0|  5.9|   4.6|   6.2|   6.5|   3.5|   4.1|   2.4
English ............................| 18.1| 20.4|  19.9|  23.8|  21.8|  25.0|  23.9|  22.4
Foreign language ...................|  6.4|  4.8|   4.2|   2.8|   3.7|   3.8|   5.2|   4.6
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Health and physical education ......|  6.9|  8.3|   7.9|   6.5|   5.6|   7.5|   5.9|   3.9
Home economics .....................|  5.9|  5.1|   2.8|   3.6|   2.6|   3.1|   2.2|   1.9
Industrial arts ....................|  5.1|  4.1|   3.9|   5.2|   2.2|   2.1|   0.5|   0.3
Mathematics ........................| 13.9| 14.4|  18.2|  15.3|  19.2|  14.5|  17.2|  18.2
Music ..............................|  4.7|  3.8|   3.0|   3.7|   4.8|   4.2|   4.3|   2.9
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Science ............................| 10.8| 10.6|  13.1|  12.1|  11.0|  13.3|  12.6|  15.2
Social studies .....................| 15.3| 14.0|  12.4|  11.2|  13.6|  11.0|  13.4|  14.5
Special education ..................|  0.4|  1.1|   3.0|   2.1|   3.5|   5.2|   1.7|   4.0
Other ..............................|  1.9|  3.1|   4.0|   3.3|   3.4|   3.9|   5.2|   6.4
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SOURCE: National Education Association, Status of the American Public School Teacher, 2000-01. (Copyright © 2003 by the National Education Association. (All rights reserved.) (This table was prepared August 2003.)