| Table 71. | Percent of vocational and nonvocational public school teachers of grades 9 to 12, by selected demographic and educational characteristics: 1999-2000 |
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| |Teacher type | | | Teacher type
Characteristic | |_______________________| Characteristics | |_____________________
of teachers |Total | Non- |Voca- | of teachers |Total | Non- |Voca-
| | voca- |tional | | |vocationia|tional
| | tional | | | | |
| | | | | | |
__________________________|___________|___________|___________|__________________________________|__________|__________|__________
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
__________________________|___________|___________|___________|__________________________________|__________|__________|__________
Total .................|100.0 (0.0)|100.0 (0.0)|100.0 (0.0)| | | |
|___________|___________|___________| | | |
Sex | | | |Undergraduate field of study\1\ | | |
Male ...................| 45.2 (0.4)| 43.6 (0.4)| 56.9 (1.1)| Business and management ........| 2.5 (0.2)| 1.5 (0.1)|11.2 (0.8)
Female .................| 54.8 (0.4)| 56.4 (0.4)| 43.1 (1.1)| Education ......................|53.5 (0.4)|51.7 (0.4)|68.0 (1.1)
| | | | Academic area ................|33.1 (0.3)|36.1 (0.4)| 8.1 (0.1)
Race/ethnicity | | | | English education ..........| 5.6 (0.1)| 6.1 (0.1)| 0.7 (0.2)
White, non-Hispanic ....| 86.1 (0.3)| 86.2 (0.4)| 85.3 (0.8)| Music education ...........| 2.3 (0.1)| 2.6 (0.1)| 0.1 (0.1)
Black, non-Hispanic ....| 6.5 (0.2)| 6.3 (0.3)| 7.8 (0.6)| Physical education ........| 8.9 (0.2)| 9.6 (0.2)| 2.9 (0.4)
Hispanic ...............| 5.1 (0.2)| 5.2 (0.2)| 4.6 (0.6)| Other academic area ........|16.4 (0.3)|19.2 (0.3)| 4.3 (0.1)
Asian/Pacific Islander .| 1.3 (0.1)| 1.4 (0.1)| 0.8 (0.1)| General ......................| 8.1 (0.2)| 8.6 (0.2)| 4.1 (0.5)
American Indian or | | | | Special education ............| 4.4 (0.1)| 4.8 (0.2)| 1.1 (0.2)
Alaska Native ........| 1.0 (0.1)| 1.0 (0.1)| 1.5 (0.2)| Vocational education .........| 7.3 (0.2)| 1.6 (0.1)|53.9 (1.2)
| | | | Other education .............| 0.5 (#) | 0.5 (#) | 0.8 (0.2)
Age | | | | English .......................| 7.5 (0.2)| 8.3 (0.2)| 1.5 (0.3)
Under 30 years .........| 16.0 (0.3)| 17.1 (0.3)| 8.4 (0.6)| Foreign language ..............| 3.9 (0.1)| 4.3 (0.2)| 0.1 (0.1)
30 to 39 years .........| 21.6 (0.3)| 22.1 (0.4)| 17.7 (0.9)| Mathematics ...................| 5.1 (0.1)| 5.7 (0.2)| 0.2 (0.1)
40 to 49 years .........| 30.6 (0.3)| 30.0 (0.4)| 35.3 (1.1)| Sciences ......................| 8.1 (0.2)| 9.0 (0.2)| 0.7 (0.1)
50 years and over ......| 31.7 (0.4)| 30.8 (0.4)| 38.6 (1.1)| Social sciences and | | |
| | | | history ......................| 9.5 (0.2)|10.2 (0.2)| 3.4 (0.4)
| | | | Visual and performing | | |
Highest college degree | | | | arts ........................| 4.2 (0.2)| 4.5 (0.2)| 1.7 (0.3)
Less than a | | | | Other ..........................| 5.7 (0.2)| 4.8 (0.2)|13.0 (0.8)
bachelor's degree.....| 1.7 (0.1)| 0.5 (0.1)| 10.6 (0.7)| | | |
Bachelor's degree ......| 48.4 (0.4)| 48.9 (0.4)| 44.6 (1.1)|Age at which first began | | |
Master's degree ........| 45.4 (0.4)| 46.0 (0.4)| 41.0 (1.1)| to teach full-time or | | |
Education | | | | part-time | | |
specialist\2\ ........| 3.2 (0.1)| 3.2 (0.1)| 3.2 (0.4)| 25 or under ..................|62.2 (0.4)|63.6 (0.4)|51.5 (1.1)
Doctorate or first | | | | 26 to 35 .....................|25.8 (0.3)|25.3 (0.3)|29.7 (1.0)
professional .........| 1.3 (0.1)| 1.4 (0.1)| 0.6 (0.1)| 36 to 45 .....................| 9.3 (0.2)| 8.5 (0.2)|15.1 (0.8)
| | | | 46 to 55 .....................| 2.5 (0.1)| 2.4 (0.1)| 3.3 (0.4)
| | | | 56 or over ...................| 0.2 (#) | 0.2 (#) | 0.4 (0.1)
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| # Rounds to zero. NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals due to rounding. Standard errors appear in parentheses. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), "Public Teacher Questionnaire," and "Charter Teacher Questionnaire," 1999-2000. (This table was prepared July 2002.)
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