About 7 percent are professors. The other groups represented include counselors, parents, consultants, and school board members, with some readers playing multiple roles in schools. The mean number of years in the education profession is 21. Almost 92 percent of respondents have a master's degree, with more than 20 percent holding a doctorate. Your Reading Habits Eighty-two percent of respondents are regular readers, having read at least three of the last four issues.
Readers also share their copies of the magazine with colleagues.
The pass-along rate is 1.48 readers a copy, excluding the recipient. About 96 percent do not discard their copy after reading it, with 79 percent saving it for reference purposes. Many other magazines are on our respondents' reading list. More than 50 percent read the Kappan. The list of journals read is long, with dozens of publications mentioned at least once.