Table 1. Percentage of beginning public school teachers who were assigned a mentor in school year 2007–08, and percentage distribution of beginning public school teachers who reported the extent to which the assigned mentor improved their teaching, by selected school and teacher characteristics: School year 2007

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Table 1. Percentage of beginning public school teachers who were assigned a mentor in school year 2007–08, and percentage distribution of beginning public school teachers who reported the extent to which the assigned mentor improved their teaching, by selected school and teacher characteristics: School year 2007–08
		Among teachers who were assigned a mentor, percent who reported the extent to which the mentor improved their teaching
Selected teacher or school characteristic in 2007–08	Percent of teachers assigned a mentor	Not at all		To a small extent	To a moderate extent	To a great extent
Total	79.6	11.9		25.3	35.6	27.2
Age
Less than 30 years	80.8	10.4		23.7	36.9	29.0
30 or more years	76.8	‡		29.5	32.2	22.5
Grade level
Primary/middle	79.2	14.1	!	23.4	33.5	29.0
High/combined	80.2	8.5		28.2	38.8	24.4
Community type
City/suburban	79.5	13.3	!	23.4	36.6	26.6
Town/rural	79.8	10.1		27.8	34.2	27.9
Percent of K-12 students who were approved for free or reduced-price lunches
0-49	82.5	12.7	!	24.5	33.1	29.7
50 or more	76.7	11.1	!	27.0	37.5	24.4
School did not participate in free or reduced-price lunch program	69.1	‡		‡	66.7	19.2	!
! 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.
NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. Data on mentor status were collected during the 2008–09 school year. Cases with missing data are not included in the analysis.
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. For more information about the data file, please go to http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2011359.

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