| Total |
100.0 |
94.2 |
5.8 |
| Base salary |
| Less than $40,000 |
100.0 |
93.2 |
6.8 |
| $40,000 or more |
100.0 |
95.6 |
4.4! |
| Teaching status |
| Full time |
100.0 |
94.2 |
5.8 |
| Part time |
100.0 |
90.5 |
‡ |
| Assigned a mentor in 2008–09 |
| Yes |
100.0 |
92.9 |
7.1 |
| No |
100.0 |
94.8 |
5.2 |
| Class organization |
| Departmentalized instruction |
100.0 |
92.2 |
7.8 |
| Elementary subject specialist |
100.0 |
98.0 |
‡ |
| Self-contained class |
100.0 |
96.2 |
3.8! |
| Team teaching |
100.0 |
99.2 |
‡ |
| "Pull-out" class or "push-in" instruction |
100.0 |
95.8 |
‡ |
| Community type1 |
| City/suburban |
100.0 |
94.2 |
5.8! |
| Town/rural |
100.0 |
94.2 |
5.8 |
| Percent of K–12 students who were approved for free or reduced-price lunches1 |
| Less than 50 percent |
100.0 |
96.9 |
3.1 |
| 50 percent or more |
100.0 |
93.0 |
7.0 |
| School did not participate in free or reduced-price lunch program |
100.0 |
75.1 |
‡ |
| ! Interpret data with caution. The standard error for this estimate is equal to 30 percent or more of the estimate's values. |
| ‡ Reporting standards not met. |
| 1 Cases with missing data are not included in the analysis. |
| NOTE: These estimates include those who provided 2008–09 data during the 2009–10 data collection. These estimates do not include those who status was not known in 2008–09 or 2009–10. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding and because some data are not shown. |
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Beginning Teacher Longitudinal Study (BTLS), "First Through Third Wave Preliminary Data File," 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10. |
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