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Table 16. Teacher Views on Career and Policy Issues

Agree
%
Neutral
%
Disagree
%
I prefer teaching physics to teaching other subjects
77
14
10
If I had it to do over again, I would still choose high school teaching as my career
76
11
13
Only people who majored in physics in college should be allowed to teach it in high school
46
17
38
I have ample opportunity to share ideas with other physics teachers
30
16
54
The sequence of high school sciences should be reversed, so that students take physics first, before chemistry or biology
22
17
61
Conceptual physics enrollments in my school have grown at the expense of algebra / trig physics
18
38
44


Source: AIP Statistical Research Center: 2000-01 High School Physics Study


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