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Percentage of public school teachers who took graduate or undergraduate courses in selected subject areas prior to their first year of teaching, by course subject area, and state: 2017–18
| State | Classroom management techniques | Lesson planning | Learning assessment | Using student performance data to inform instruction | Serving students from diverse economic backgrounds | Serving students with special needs | Teaching students who are limited-English proficient (LEP) or English-language learners (ELLs) | ||||||||
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| United States | 73.8 | 78.7 | 76.6 | 56.0 | 64.5 | 70.0 | 40.9 | ||||||||
| Alabama | 77.6 | 81.2 | 82.5 | 66.0 | 72.2 | 80.0 | 39.0 | ||||||||
| Alaska | 77.7 | 82.4 | 82.2 | 64.9 | 74.0 | 75.2 | 43.6 | ||||||||
| Arizona | 72.1 | 76.0 | 76.1 | 58.3 | 65.5 | 68.2 | 57.3 | ||||||||
| Arkansas | 76.8 | 75.8 | 77.5 | 57.0 | 65.1 | 71.3 | 36.0 | ||||||||
| California | 75.4 | 79.6 | 76.6 | 61.3 | 74.7 | 70.3 | 70.3 | ||||||||
| Colorado | 73.2 | 78.2 | 78.2 | 58.5 | 69.0 | 72.6 | 50.2 | ||||||||
| Connecticut | 69.4 | 79.7 | 75.5 | 50.4 | 56.0 | 79.0 | 37.4 | ||||||||
| Delaware | 77.2 | 82.6 | 81.2 | 62.1 | 65.4 | 72.9 | 29.7 | ||||||||
| District of Columbia | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ||||||||
| Florida | 68.3 | 71.5 | 71.9 | 54.6 | 65.2 | 63.6 | 54.4 | ||||||||
| Georgia | 73.2 | 79.0 | 78.1 | 56.8 | 65.1 | 77.5 | 39.3 | ||||||||
| Hawaii | 69.3 | 77.4 | 70.4 | 50.1 | 62.9 | 61.6 | 46.6 | ||||||||
| Idaho | 83.1 | 83.5 | 83.9 | 60.3 | 65.5 | 73.0 | 44.6 | ||||||||
| Illinois | 76.4 | 85.0 | 83.0 | 57.6 | 66.9 | 81.2 | 38.1 | ||||||||
| Indiana | 77.5 | 81.0 | 78.7 | 54.0 | 65.6 | 71.8 | 31.0 | ||||||||
| Iowa | 80.2 | 87.9 | 80.9 | 58.8 | 65.5 | 76.4 | 30.0 | ||||||||
| Kansas | 80.1 | 84.7 | 82.9 | 62.0 | 68.4 | 80.2 | 38.5 | ||||||||
| Kentucky | 79.3 | 78.2 | 79.2 | 61.8 | 62.7 | 78.9 | 36.4 | ||||||||
| Louisiana | 72.4 | 70.8 | 72.8 | 52.0 | 57.7 | 59.7 | 24.7 | ||||||||
| Maine | 65.9 | 77.6 | 69.7 | 43.7 | 47.8 | 79.2 | 20.1 | ||||||||
| Maryland | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ||||||||
| Massachusetts | 59.4 | 71.0 | 65.5 | 46.0 | 55.4 | 63.1 | 34.4 | ||||||||
| Michigan | 76.1 | 83.4 | 77.1 | 49.8 | 65.1 | 68.7 | 29.1 | ||||||||
| Minnesota | 78.4 | 85.6 | 84.0 | 58.1 | 69.7 | 77.2 | 43.5 | ||||||||
| Mississippi | 73.9 | 75.8 | 76.7 | 57.1 | 58.2 | 59.5 | 26.8 | ||||||||
| Missouri | 79.9 | 83.6 | 81.3 | 55.8 | 68.4 | 78.7 | 30.0 | ||||||||
| Montana | 77.6 | 82.1 | 82.2 | 57.0 | 61.2 | 71.9 | 29.0 | ||||||||
| Nebraska | 80.8 | 83.5 | 77.9 | 54.2 | 70.6 | 81.0 | 32.0 | ||||||||
| Nevada | 74.4 | 75.6 | 77.1 | 54.1 | 67.0 | 69.1 | 50.5 | ||||||||
| New Hampshire | 73.1 | 83.4 | 78.3 | 50.2 | 47.1 | 74.8 | 23.5 | ||||||||
| New Jersey | 73.1 | 77.6 | 76.0 | 49.3 | 56.8 | 60.7 | 29.5 | ||||||||
| New Mexico | 65.8 | 72.9 | 69.0 | 44.6 | 67.1 | 65.2 | 49.9 | ||||||||
| New York | 73.7 | 83.9 | 78.8 | 58.2 | 62.6 | 71.1 | 37.3 | ||||||||
| North Carolina | 69.2 | 72.7 | 71.2 | 53.1 | 59.7 | 65.9 | 32.1 | ||||||||
| North Dakota | 79.9 | 84.5 | 84.1 | 54.1 | 76.0 | 79.5 | 32.7 | ||||||||
| Ohio | 79.4 | 83.0 | 81.0 | 58.7 | 66.3 | 71.7 | 28.9 | ||||||||
| Oklahoma | 74.7 | 72.4 | 75.8 | 58.7 | 61.9 | 66.4 | 34.4 | ||||||||
| Oregon | 83.7 | 86.1 | 83.4 | 68.0 | 72.5 | 70.0 | 54.4 | ||||||||
| Pennsylvania | 78.1 | 82.8 | 84.1 | 57.3 | 61.2 | 75.9 | 33.1 | ||||||||
| Rhode Island | 69.0 | 84.3 | 80.8 | 61.0 | 69.1 | 76.6 | 37.0 | ||||||||
| South Carolina | 70.6 | 80.0 | 77.0 | 57.2 | 65.5 | 66.9 | 36.5 | ||||||||
| South Dakota | 80.0 | 86.6 | 82.2 | 59.7 | 71.1 | 82.2 | 33.6 | ||||||||
| Tennessee | 75.6 | 80.1 | 74.6 | 52.7 | 59.3 | 72.1 | 31.1 | ||||||||
| Texas | 66.2 | 67.8 | 65.6 | 48.6 | 60.0 | 56.2 | 44.0 | ||||||||
| Utah | 78.6 | 80.8 | 76.3 | 58.3 | 69.1 | 68.4 | 49.1 | ||||||||
| Vermont | 68.5 | 81.1 | 79.3 | 55.4 | 56.9 | 75.0 | 25.2 | ||||||||
| Virginia | 75.7 | 78.7 | 77.2 | 59.8 | 61.6 | 70.5 | 34.8 | ||||||||
| Washington | 85.4 | 88.9 | 86.8 | 68.2 | 74.3 | 78.5 | 55.8 | ||||||||
| West Virginia | 78.2 | 77.2 | 80.5 | 64.6 | 63.3 | 76.8 | 27.8 | ||||||||
| Wisconsin | 75.9 | 86.9 | 84.5 | 58.4 | 69.4 | 78.6 | 34.1 | ||||||||
| Wyoming | 72.2 | 82.6 | 74.7 | 48.7 | 63.7 | 77.3 | 31.1 | ||||||||
| ‡ Reporting standards not met. The response rate is below 50 percent. | |||||||||||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS), "Public School Teacher Data File," 2017–18. | |||||||||||||||
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