| Table 75. | Percent of students who give the teachers in their school grades"A" or "B" for their teaching skills, by school location andstudent's race/ethnicity: 1996 |
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| | School location | Race/ethnicity
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Teaching skill | | | | | | |
| Total | Urban | Suburban | Rural | White | Black |Hispanic
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8
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Understanding the subjects they | | | | | | |
teach ............................| 77 | 71 | 80 | 83 | 81 | 68 | 73
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Helping students who are having | | | | | | |
problems with their studies ......| 70 | 67 | 70 | 74 | 72 | 67 | 63
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Treating students with respect .......| 65 | 63 | 63 | 70 | 67 | 59 | 61
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Keeping control and discipline in | | | | | | |
their classrooms .................| 65 | 59 | 66 | 71 | 68 | 59 | 56
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Caring about their students' futures .| 62 | 60 | 65 | 62 | 63 | 62 | 61
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Encouraging students' academic | | | | | | |
interests ........................| 58 | 51 | 64 | 59 | 61 | 49 | 47
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Making learning interesting for | | | | | | |
everyone .........................| 39 | 41 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 42 | 44
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Taking an interest in students' | | | | | | |
home and personal lives ..........| 27 | 26 | 25 | 31 | 26 | 31 | 28
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SOURCE: Metropolitan Life/Louis Harris Associates, Inc., The Metropolitan Life Survey of The American Teacher, 1996, Part II. "Students Voice Their Opinions on: Their Education, Teachers and Schools." (This table was prepared July 1997.)
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