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The series stars Quinta Brunson as a second-grade teacher at the underfunded public school in West Philadelphia.—
Rania Aniftos,
Billboard,
3 Mar. 2025 -
California teachers have more leeway to teach ethnic studies than other subjects.—
Molly Gibbs and Grant Stringer Bay Area News Group (TNS),
arkansasonline.com,
3 Mar. 2025
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) Smith won her first Academy Award for Best Actress for this curious, eccentric role as a 1930s schoolmistress who takes four young girls under her wing — for better and for worse.—
Christina Newland,
Vulture,
2 Oct. 2024
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Four years later came her Oscar-winning portrayal of an idiosyncratic English schoolmistress in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.—
Duane Byrge,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Sep. 2024
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This is largely because of its instructor, Aan Deesamer.—
Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz,
Vulture,
4 Mar. 2025
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Wilson, an instructor at Spelman College in Atlanta, was found dead the next day, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) previously told PEOPLE.—
Abigail Adams,
People.com,
3 Mar. 2025
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There’s also murder and intrigue involving the secretary’s beautiful mistress, played by Sean Young.—
Martha Ross,
The Mercury News,
27 Feb. 2025
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In 1987, Hackman starred opposite Kevin Costner and Sean Young in Roger Donaldson's No Way Out, which finds his desperate government bigwig David Brice with blood on his hands after the accidental murder of his mistress.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
27 Feb. 2025
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The headmistress of her school created bizarre ways to segregate her from the rest of the students, and when Kitty rebelled against these rules, she was expelled.—
Rebekah Taussig,
TIME,
19 Feb. 2025
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Wild Child also stars Emma Roberts and Natasha Richardson in a tale of what happens when teenage California native Poppy (Roberts) is shipped off to boarding school in England, where Richardson plays the headmistress.—
Alex Ross,
People.com,
17 Feb. 2025
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The course is a two-year Master of Fine Arts degree and will prepare students to enter the industry as intimacy coordinators for film and visual media, intimacy directors for theater and live performance, and intimacy pedagogues for teaching in education and in the profession.—
Patrick Frater,
Variety,
20 Mar. 2023
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His main teacher was Leon Russianoff, a leading clarinet pedagogue of the latter half of the 20th century, after whom Mr. Drucker would name his son.—
Daniel J. Wakin,
New York Times,
20 Dec. 2022
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On the other side of the room, a wooden schoolmaster’s desk is another cherished piece.—
Lennie Omalza,
The Courier-Journal,
20 June 2024
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In the original Irving tale, the character of Katrina — the young woman in Sleepy Hollow who schoolmaster Ichabod Crane and prankster Brom Bones covet as a future bride — has only a small part.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Oct. 2023
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Flack, who died on Monday at 88, began her career as a schoolteacher with a solid grounding in both classical music and Black church singing.—
Ben Sisario,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
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The wiry and intense physicality that Benesch brought to her role as a newbie schoolteacher in The Teachers’ Lounge — a kind of frankness and presence that’s evident too in her mostly deskbound role in September 5 — finds new depths in her Late Shift performance.—
Sheri Linden,
The Hollywood Reporter,
19 Feb. 2025
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“Instructress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/instructress. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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