| Table 74. | Public school students' ratings of the quality of teachers andparental and community support for their schools, by schoollocation and students' race/ethnicity (in percent): 1996 |
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| | School location | Race/ethnicity
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Item | Total | Urban |Suburban | Rural | White | Black |Hispanic
__________________________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|__________
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8
__________________________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|__________
Quality of teachers | | | | | | |
Excellent ............| 16 | 18 | 17 | 11 | 15 | 19 | 16
Pretty good ..........| 57 | 51 | 56 | 68 | 62 | 47 | 51
Only fair ............| 20 | 23 | 20 | 16 | 17 | 25 | 24
Poor .................| 5 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5
Don't know ...........| 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4
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Parental and community | | | | | | |
support for your school | | | | | | |
Excellent ............| 13 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 14 | 12 | 11
Pretty good ..........| 38 | 34 | 38 | 43 | 41 | 32 | 34
Only fair ............| 26 | 27 | 26 | 26 | 26 | 30 | 22
Poor .................| 14 | 18 | 14 | 9 | 12 | 17 | 21
Don't know ...........| 9 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 11 | 12
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SOURCE: Metropolitan Life/Louis Harris Associates, Inc., The Metropolitan Life Survey of The American Teacher, 1996, Part II. "Students Voice Their Opinions on: Their Education, Teachers and Schools." (This table was prepared July 1997.)
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