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Table 74.Public school students' ratings of the quality of teachers andparental and community support for their schools, by schoollocation and students' race/ethnicity (in percent): 1996

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                          |         |       School location       |      Race/ethnicity
                          |         |___________________ _________|______________________________
                          |         |         |         |         |         |         |
           Item           |  Total  |  Urban  |Suburban |  Rural  |  White  |  Black  |Hispanic
__________________________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|__________
            1             |    2    |    3    |    4    |    5    |    6    |    7    |        8
__________________________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|__________
Quality of teachers       |         |         |         |         |         |         |
    Excellent ............|      16 |      18 |      17 |      11 |      15 |      19 |       16
    Pretty good ..........|      57 |      51 |      56 |      68 |      62 |      47 |       51
    Only fair ............|      20 |      23 |      20 |      16 |      17 |      25 |       24
    Poor .................|       5 |       7 |       5 |       5 |       5 |       6 |        5
    Don't know ...........|       1 |       2 |       2 |       0 |       1 |       3 |        4
                          |         |         |         |         |         |         |
Parental and community    |         |         |         |         |         |         |
 support for your school  |         |         |         |         |         |         |
    Excellent ............|      13 |      10 |      13 |      16 |      14 |      12 |       11
    Pretty good ..........|      38 |      34 |      38 |      43 |      41 |      32 |       34
    Only fair ............|      26 |      27 |      26 |      26 |      26 |      30 |       22
    Poor .................|      14 |      18 |      14 |       9 |      12 |      17 |       21
    Don't know ...........|       9 |      11 |       9 |       6 |       8 |      11 |       12
__________________________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|__________

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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