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Updated (1/13/2011).

The data presented below are from the most recent year in which the SASS was administered, 2007–2008. Due to changes made by NCES in the way teachers’ fields of primary assignment were categorized, these data are not comparable to the 1999–2000 data that were the basis of the first iteration of this indicator (these data were originally presented as part of Indicator I-11, which now deals separately with teacher earnings). The Humanities Indicators has recently obtained information from NCES that will permit us to render the two data sets comparable and present a trend analysis, (anticipated completion date: spring 2011).

Slightly more than 45% of humanities teachers indicated that if they “could go back to [their] college days and start over again” they would certainly become teachers (Figure I-12). This level of satisfaction was similar to that reported by teachers of other subjects, with the exception of the natural sciences, in which field only 38% of teachers reported the same level of enthusiasm for their teaching careers.

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