Kindergarten Teachers: Public and Private School Teachers of the Kindergarten Class of 1998-99.

The article discusses the experiences and characteristics of kindergarten teachers in public and private schools of class 1998-99 in the U.S. Data was collected from teachers participating in the educational survey "Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99". Majority of the teachers were women, white, non-Hispanic, and have college degrees. Teachers from ethnic minority groups such as African Americans and Hispanic Americans tended to be in classrooms with a high concentration of ethnic minority children.