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¹ Other races/ethnicities include Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander and American Indian/Alaska Native students.

! Interpret data with caution; the coefficient of variation is greater than or equal to 30 percent.

NOTE: Percents are based on the percentage of teachers who participated in each professional development activity (52 percent for applied study in art studio, 56 percent for developing knowledge about visual arts, 69 percent for connecting visual arts learning with other subject areas, 46 percent for research on arts and student learning, 62 percent for in integrating educational technology into visual arts instruction, 70 percent for student assessment, and 41 percent for a subject area that is unrelated to visual arts). 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 Visual Arts Specialists,” FRSS 102VA, 2009–10.

Table 36.	Among public elementary school visual arts specialists who participated in various professional development activities, percent and standard error reporting that they spent more than 8 hours in the activity, by school characteristics: School year 2009–10—Continued (Return to Table 36)

School characteristic	Activities designed for all teachers
	Incorporating state or district standards into instruction		Student assessment		A subject area that is unrelated to visual arts
	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error

All public elementary school visual arts specialists	34	(1.8)	29	(1.8)	49	(3.0)

Enrollment size
Less than 300	37	(3.7)	29	(4.5)	60	(7.0)
300 to 499	34	(2.5)	30	(3.1)	49	(4.2)
500 or more	34	(2.9)	26	(2.6)	43	(4.2)
Community type
City	36	(3.8)	30	(3.2)	48	(5.5)
Suburban	33	(3.5)	26	(2.9)	44	(5.1)
Town	36	(5.5)	25	(6.1)	54	(7.2)
Rural	33	(3.4)	32	(3.9)	54	(5.4)
Region
Northeast	31	(4.5)	28	(4.2)	47	(6.2)
Southeast	37	(3.2)	28	(3.8)	49	(5.3)
Central	36	(3.5)	30	(3.1)	51	(4.6)
West	33	(4.4)	28	(4.6)	47	(8.3)
Percent combined enrollment of Black and other races/ethnicities¹
Less than 6 percent	40	(4.6)	39	(5.3)	59	(6.4)
6 to 20 percent	30	(3.6)	24	(4.2)	48	(4.6)
21 to 49 percent	29	(3.9)	25	(4.8)	44	(6.4)
50 percent or more	39	(3.9)	29	(3.0)	47	(4.8)
Percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch
0 to 25 percent	33	(3.5)	31	(3.7)	46	(4.9)
26 to 50 percent	33	(3.8)	31	(4.5)	58	(5.3)
51 to 75 percent	28	(4.1)	21	(3.7)	41	(5.7)
76 percent or more	44	(4.3)	31	(4.3)	50	(5.5)