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Even in the United States, his student turned assistant Henry LeTang became the tap teacher to hundreds, from starlets needing tailoring to the great Gregory Hines.—
Brian Seibert,
New Yorker,
13 May 2026 -
The bill, which was supported by nurses, teachers, construction workers and service employees in Connecticut, is one of the biggest victories for organized labor in the state in recent years.—
Andrew Brown,
Hartford Courant,
12 May 2026
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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 week, Princeton faculty voted to require instructor proctoring of all in-class exams beginning on July 1.—
Nate Anderson,
ArsTechnica,
13 May 2026
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Timothy James Shay, 51, was sentenced to 18 to 54 years in state prison for using his position as a private piano instructor to abuse young male students from the mid-1990s through his arrest in 2025.—
Frederick Sutton Sinclair,
CBS News,
13 May 2026
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The easier step to take would be to not let your mistress take pictures of you at all, especially not without any clothes on.—
Sean Joseph OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
14 May 2026
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The story follows a respected college basketball coach who is accused of murdering his mistress.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
12 May 2026
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Camila jokingly called the device Tronchatoro, or Trunchbull, after the sadistic school headmistress in Roald Dahl's Matilda.—
Brian Bennett,
Time,
13 Jan. 2026
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In Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Green plays Miss Peregrine, the headmistress of a hidden school that protects children with unusual abilities.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Nov. 2025
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The series is devised and curated by poet/singer-songwriter/teacher Darius Degher who, along with poet-pedagogue Marit Anderson and local arts impresario Michael Schmitt, hosts the readings, according to a news release.—
News Release,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Apr. 2026
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Captain İsmet, Detective Kenan, and pedagogue Aysun uncover dark truths hidden in the town’s silence, where fear and guilt protect the killer.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
27 Mar. 2026
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In Silber’s revival, the wise schoolmaster Mr. Lundie is Widow Lundie, and the town flirt Meg Brockie is a pub owner pushing middle age.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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The struggle inspired a young Newcastle schoolmaster named Thomas Spence to develop the world’s first basic income proposal.—
Will Glovinsky,
The Conversation,
30 Mar. 2026
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The Kremlin also released footage Monday of Putin driving to personally pick up one of his old schoolteachers, Vera Gurevich, from a hotel lobby with a bouquet of flowers and an enthusiastic embrace before taking her for dinner at the Kremlin.—
Zahra Ullah,
CNN Money,
13 May 2026
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For schoolteachers, this is worse than whiplash, because there’s a crucial difference between the American-history-is-all-bad or -all-good preferences of the left or the right.—
Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
12 May 2026
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“Instructress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/instructress. Accessed 18 May. 2026.
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