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† Not applicable.

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

‡ Reporting standards not met.

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

NOTE: Percents are based on the percentage of teachers who participated in each professional development activity (22 percent for applied study in one of the arts or arts education, 18 percent for developing knowledge about the arts, 35 percent for connecting arts learning with other subject areas, 20 percent for research on the arts and student learning, 78 percent for incorporating state or district standards into instruction, 83 percent for student assessment, and 84 percent for integrating educational technologies into instruction). Classroom teachers are teachers of self-contained classrooms; these teachers could teach arts areas as separate subjects or incorporate arts areas into other subjects.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Fast Response Survey System, “Arts Survey of Elementary School Classroom Teachers,” FRSS 102C, 2009–10.

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—Continued (Return to Table 40)

School characteristic	Activities designed for all teachers
	Incorporating state or district standards into instruction		Student assessment		Integrating educational technologies into instruction
	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error

All public elementary school classroom teachers	74	(2.2)	76	(2.0)	75	(1.8)

Enrollment size
Less than 300	79	(4.0)	78	(4.0)	74	(4.4)
300 to 499	73	(4.0)	72	(3.4)	68	(3.5)
500 or more	74	(2.4)	78	(2.4)	79	(2.4)
Community type
City	78	(3.8)	78	(3.3)	80	(3.4)
Suburban	73	(3.3)	77	(3.1)	72	(3.6)
Town	80	(4.3)	76	(4.5)	71	(5.0)
Rural	68	(4.5)	74	(3.4)	75	(3.2)
Region
Northeast	69	(5.4)	71	(4.3)	70	(4.9)
Southeast	76	(3.9)	80	(3.8)	82	(2.5)
Central	78	(3.5)	74	(3.5)	68	(3.9)
West	73	(4.1)	77	(3.7)	74	(3.4)
Percent combined enrollment of Black and other races/ethnicities¹
Less than 6 percent	70	(4.9)	71	(4.0)	73	(4.2)
6 to 20 percent	72	(4.0)	72	(3.8)	70	(3.5)
21 to 49 percent	78	(3.7)	79	(3.2)	72	(3.6)
50 percent or more	74	(3.0)	79	(3.0)	81	(2.7)

Percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch
0 to 25 percent	70	(3.6)	71	(3.5)	72	(4.2)
26 to 50 percent	75	(4.9)	81	(3.4)	72	(4.0)
51 to 75 percent	80	(3.5)	78	(3.1)	80	(3.1)
76 percent or more	70	(3.8)	77	(3.8)	76	(3.2)