| Table 40. | Among public elementary school classroom teachers who participated in professional development activities, percent and standard error reporting that participation in the activity improved their teaching to a moderate or great extent, by school characteristics: School year 2009–10 (Table 40—Continued) |
| School characteristic | Activities focusing on arts instruction | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Applied study in one of the arts or arts education | Developing knowledge about the arts (e.g., historical, cultural, analytical) |
Connecting arts learning with other subject areas | Research on the arts and student learning (e.g., arts and cognition) |
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| Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
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| All public elementary school classroom teachers | 50 | (3.9) | 43 | (4.8) | 56 | (3.8) | 54 | (4.4) |
| Enrollment size | ||||||||
| Less than 300 | 48 | (10.0) | 46 | (10.2) | 45 | (8.9) | 54 | (11.3) |
| 300 to 499 | 56 | (5.9) | 48 | (8.1) | 64 | (5.0) | 72 | (5.4) |
| 500 or more | 47 | (5.8) | 40 | (6.9) | 53 | (4.8) | 43 | (6.8) |
| Community type | ||||||||
| City | 59 | (7.5) | 61 | (8.3) | 64 | (6.1) | 73 | (8.0) |
| Suburban | 50 | (6.0) | 43 | (8.3) | 55 | (6.5) | 54 | (7.9) |
| Town | 49 | (13.9) | ‡ | (†) | 60 | (11.9) | ‡ | (†) |
| Rural | 39 | (6.7) | 29 | (8.4) | 47 | (7.6) | 39 | (8.7) |
| Region | ||||||||
| Northeast | 40 | (10.3) | 50 | (12.0) | 60 | (8.8) | 53 | (10.5) |
| Southeast | 54 | (7.6) | 38 | (9.6) | 55 | (6.1) | 54 | (8.9) |
| Central | 38 | (9.7) | 37 | (9.9) | 49 | (7.5) | 52 | (8.4) |
| West | 58 | (7.7) | 47 | (7.2) | 59 | (6.2) | 56 | (8.8) |
| Percent combined enrollment of Black and other races/ethnicities1 |
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| Less than 6 percent | 30! | (12.8) | 42! | (18.9) | 44 | (10.6) | 42! | (12.9) |
| 6 to 20 percent | 40 | (9.3) | 33 | (9.7) | 42 | (7.7) | 49 | (9.2) |
| 21 to 49 percent | 43 | (9.8) | 32! | (10.5) | 66 | (6.2) | 55 | (9.7) |
| 50 percent or more | 64 | (5.9) | 56 | (7.2) | 59 | (5.5) | 61 | (7.5) |
| Percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch |
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| 0 to 25 percent | 46 | (10.8) | 45 | (10.7) | 49 | (6.9) | 49 | (7.1) |
| 26 to 50 percent | 41 | (9.6) | 22! | (8.1) | 46 | (9.2) | 50 | (9.7) |
| 51 to 75 percent | 45 | (8.7) | 45 | (9.2) | 61 | (6.5) | 54 | (10.9) |
| 76 percent or more | 62 | (6.8) | 54 | (8.1) | 63 | (6.1) | 63 | (8.3) |
| See notes at end of table. |