[Percentage distribution]


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                                     |        |        |        |        |        |
   Teaching field in which largest   |  1966  |  1971  |  1976  | 1981   |  1986  |  1991
      portion of time was spent      |        |        |        |        |        |
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                  1                  |   2    |   3    |   4    |   5    |   6    |   7
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   Total secondary school teachers,  |        |        |        |        |        |
      in thousands ..................|    746 |    927 |  1,016 |    995 |    970 |  1,012
                                     |--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------
    All fields ......................|  100.0 |  100.0 |  100.0 |  100.0 |  100.0 |  100.0
                                     |--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------
 Agriculture ........................|    1.6 |    0.6 |    0.6 |    1.1 |    0.6 |    0.3
 Art ................................|    2.0 |    3.7 |    2.4 |    3.1 |    1.5 |    2.6
 Business education .................|    7.0 |    5.9 |    4.6 |    6.2 |    6.5 |    3.5
 English ............................|   18.1 |   20.4 |   19.9 |   23.8 |   21.8 |   25.0
 Foreign language ...................|    6.4 |    4.8 |    4.2 |    2.8 |    3.7 |    3.8
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 Health and physical education ......|    6.9 |    8.3 |    7.9 |    6.5 |    5.6 |    7.5
 Home economics .....................|    5.9 |    5.1 |    2.8 |    3.6 |    2.6 |    3.1
 Industrial arts ....................|    5.1 |    4.1 |    3.9 |    5.2 |    2.2 |    2.1
 Mathematics ........................|   13.9 |   14.4 |   18.2 |   15.3 |   19.2 |   14.5
 Music ..............................|    4.7 |    3.8 |    3.0 |    3.7 |    4.8 |    4.2
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 Science ............................|   10.8 |   10.6 |   13.1 |   12.1 |   11.0 |   13.3
 Social studies .....................|   15.3 |   14.0 |   12.4 |   11.2 |   13.6 |   11.0
 Special education ..................|    0.4 |    1.1 |    3.0 |    2.1 |    3.5 |    5.2
 Other ..............................|    1.9 |    3.1 |    4.0 |    3.3 |    3.4 |    3.9
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SOURCE: National Education Association, Status of the American Public School Teacher, 1990-91. (Copyright @ 1992 by the National Education Association. All rights reserved.) (This table was prepared January 1993.)