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Percentage of Public School Teachers Who Taught Elementary Grades with an Undergraduate or Graduate Certification Major and In Their Main Assignment Field, 1999-2000

	Major in Field			No Major in Field			Total Certified
	Total	Certified	Not Certified	Total	Certified	Not Certified	Total Certified
English	32.7	28.5	4.2	67.3	54.5	12.8	83
Foreign Language	#	#	#	#	#	#	#
Mathematics	10.3	#	#	89.8	66.3	23.5	#
Science	#	#	#	#	#	#	#
Social Science	#	#	#	#	#	#	#
Elementary Education	75.1	71.5	3.6	24.9	21.6	3.2	93.2
ESL/Bilingual Education	43	37.8	5.2	57	45.7	11.3	83.5
Arts & Music	89.7	85.4	4.3	10.4	5.9	4.4	91.3
Special Education	75.6	71.2	4.6	24.2	16.9	7.3	88.1
Physical Education/ Health Education	77	70.2	6.8	23	18.1	4.9	88.3
Health Education	#	#	#	#	#	#	#
Physical Education	76.4	73.1	3.3	23.6	16.7	6.9	89.8

Source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. Qualification of the Public School Teacher Workforce: Prevalence of Out-of-Field Teaching, 1987-88 to 1999-2000, NCES 2002-603, by Marilyn McMiellen Seastrom, Kerry J. Gruber, Robin Henke, Daniel J. McGrath, and Benjamin A. Cohen. Washington, DC: 2002.