| Table 121. | Percent and standard error for public secondary school music specialists reporting that they gave moderate or major emphasis to various goals or objectives of student learning, by school characteristics: School year 2009–10—Continued (Return to Table 121) |
| School characteristic | Evaluating music and music performances | Learning about the expressive possibilities of music (i.e., conveying feelings, ideas, and meaning) | Making connections among music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts |
Understanding music in relation to history and cultures |
Using technology to gain knowledge and skills in music |
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| Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
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| All public secondary school music specialists | 87 | (1.0) | 90 | (1.1) | 68 | (1.9) | 74 | (1.5) | 48 | (1.4) |
| Enrollment size | ||||||||||
| Less than 500 | 85 | (2.4) | 89 | (2.1) | 66 | (3.5) | 75 | (3.4) | 43 | (3.4) |
| 500 to 999 | 86 | (1.4) | 89 | (1.7) | 66 | (2.8) | 69 | (2.8) | 46 | (2.7) |
| 1,000 or more | 90 | (1.8) | 91 | (1.7) | 71 | (2.4) | 78 | (2.0) | 55 | (2.4) |
| Community type | ||||||||||
| City | 89 | (2.0) | 91 | (2.5) | 71 | (3.3) | 77 | (3.4) | 47 | (4.3) |
| Suburban | 88 | (2.1) | 89 | (1.8) | 68 | (2.6) | 74 | (2.4) | 57 | (2.6) |
| Town | 86 | (3.1) | 89 | (2.8) | 62 | (4.0) | 69 | (4.0) | 46 | (4.4) |
| Rural | 86 | (1.7) | 89 | (1.4) | 68 | (2.7) | 73 | (2.7) | 41 | (2.5) |
| Region | ||||||||||
| Northeast | 84 | (3.2) | 83 | (3.1) | 69 | (4.0) | 75 | (3.2) | 58 | (4.1) |
| Southeast | 87 | (2.0) | 92 | (1.9) | 76 | (3.3) | 76 | (3.0) | 59 | (3.2) |
| Central | 88 | (1.9) | 92 | (2.0) | 66 | (3.4) | 73 | (2.6) | 41 | (3.3) |
| West | 88 | (1.9) | 90 | (1.6) | 63 | (3.7) | 72 | (3.1) | 42 | (2.7) |
| Percent combined enrollment of Black and other races/ethnicities1 |
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| Less than 6 percent | 84 | (2.2) | 90 | (2.4) | 67 | (3.4) | 70 | (3.7) | 45 | (2.9) |
| 6 to 20 percent | 87 | (2.2) | 89 | (1.9) | 66 | (3.0) | 73 | (2.8) | 50 | (3.2) |
| 21 to 49 percent | 89 | (2.0) | 92 | (1.7) | 67 | (3.0) | 75 | (2.9) | 46 | (3.3) |
| 50 percent or more | 89 | (1.9) | 89 | (2.1) | 71 | (3.0) | 76 | (2.8) | 52 | (3.4) |
| Percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch |
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| 0 to 25 percent | 88 | (1.8) | 91 | (1.7) | 70 | (3.1) | 75 | (2.3) | 51 | (2.9) |
| 26 to 50 percent | 87 | (1.7) | 90 | (1.6) | 64 | (2.7) | 72 | (2.5) | 48 | (2.6) |
| 51 to 75 percent | 86 | (2.4) | 88 | (2.0) | 66 | (3.9) | 72 | (3.4) | 43 | (4.0) |
| 76 percent or more | 87 | (3.4) | 88 | (4.1) | 74 | (4.9) | 79 | (5.1) | 54 | (6.3) |
| 1Other races/ethnicities include Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander and American Indian/Alaska Native students. | ||||||||||
| NOTE: Arts specialists are education professionals with a teaching certificate in an arts discipline—such as music, visual arts, dance, or drama/theatre—who provide separate instruction in that discipline. | ||||||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Fast Response Survey System, “Survey of Secondary School Music Specialists,” FRSS 103M, 2009–10. |
