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I-24a: Percentage of Teachers Who Would Teach Again, by Main Teaching Assignment, 2011–2012*

Data Source and Other Information

* Public and private schools (excluding Bureau of Indian Education schools, for which data were unavailable). Includes regular full- and part-time teachers, itinerant teachers, and long-term substitutes.
** General education includes: early childhood or pre-K, elementary grades, and special education.

Source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Schools and Staffing Survey, “Public and Private School Teacher Data Files,” 2011–2012. Data analyzed by National Center for Education Statistics staff. Data presented by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Humanities Indicators (www.humanitiesindicators.org).

About the Data

The category “humanities teacher” does not include what the Schools and Staffing Survey refers to as “general” educators in the elementary grades who spent a portion of their time teaching language arts, reading, history, and other humanities material.

Related Indicators

For more data on job satisfaction, see “Job Satisfaction of Humanities Majors” and “Faculty Job Satisfaction” (for humanities educators at the postsecondary level).

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