| Table 32. | Percent and standard error for public elementary school music specialists reporting that they participated in various professional development activities, by school characteristics: School year 2009–10 (Return to Table 32) |
| School characteristic | Activities designed for all teachers | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Incorporating state or district standards into instruction | Student assessment | A subject area that is unrelated to music | ||||
| Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
|
| All public elementary school music specialists | 78 | (1.7) | 71 | (2.0) | 38 | (1.7) |
| Enrollment size | ||||||
| Less than 300 | 70 | (4.0) | 66 | (3.9) | 39 | (4.1) |
| 300 to 499 | 81 | (2.2) | 74 | (2.9) | 38 | (2.8) |
| 500 or more | 79 | (2.5) | 70 | (3.0) | 38 | (2.7) |
| Community type | ||||||
| City | 79 | (2.5) | 75 | (2.8) | 35 | (3.1) |
| Suburban | 81 | (2.6) | 73 | (2.8) | 40 | (3.0) |
| Town | 80 | (3.3) | 64 | (5.1) | 40 | (4.3) |
| Rural | 71 | (3.5) | 66 | (3.0) | 38 | (3.0) |
| Region | ||||||
| Northeast | 77 | (3.5) | 70 | (3.9) | 33 | (3.6) |
| Southeast | 83 | (2.2) | 70 | (2.8) | 45 | (3.3) |
| Central | 78 | (3.3) | 73 | (3.4) | 38 | (3.3) |
| West | 73 | (2.7) | 69 | (3.4) | 37 | (3.4) |
| Percent combined enrollment of Black and other races/ethnicities1 |
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| Less than 6 percent | 76 | (4.2) | 67 | (4.8) | 43 | (3.3) |
| 6 to 20 percent | 75 | (3.2) | 70 | (3.3) | 38 | (3.4) |
| 21 to 49 percent | 75 | (2.7) | 74 | (3.0) | 40 | (3.7) |
| 50 percent or more | 83 | (2.9) | 71 | (3.3) | 35 | (3.0) |
| Percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch |
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| 0 to 25 percent | 74 | (3.2) | 72 | (3.6) | 36 | (3.4) |
| 26 to 50 percent | 77 | (2.6) | 72 | (3.4) | 39 | (3.1) |
| 51 to 75 percent | 78 | (2.5) | 65 | (3.3) | 42 | (3.6) |
| 76 percent or more | 83 | (3.0) | 75 | (3.4) | 34 | (3.6) |
| 1 Other 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 Elementary School Music Specialists,” FRSS 102M, 2009–10. |
