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Mysteries are cropping up, dating back to the founding of the school, kids are teaming up with Good Professors to expose Evil Professors, and the headmaster is singling out the protagonist for dangerous tasks designed to kill her.
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Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2025
Murphy’s family background — his parents were teachers, his grandfather a headmaster, most of his aunts and uncles educators — gave him a natural connection to the role.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
Where Shy was the subject of Porter’s slender book — which is really more of a beat-poetry day-in-the-life monologue — the focus shifts here to the weary headmaster who’s been fighting on the students’ behalf all these years.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
The Welsh actor plays Edward Hewitt, the school’s headmaster.
—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2025
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From Woodland to Rocklin and even Natomas, teachers in the Sacramento region are prepared to strike as soon as the spring.—
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Meanwhile, David was a teacher and football coach at the neighboring school, Alief Hastings.—
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His father, Robert, was a Cambridge graduate and a schoolmaster who died in 1879, leaving a modest estate, of which Henry, the eldest of eight children, was an executor.—
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English schoolmaster Henry Watson Fowler (1858-1933) and his brother, the writer Francis George Fowler (1871-1918), devoted their lives to encouraging us to write more clearly and directly.—
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When the university rector, church historian Karl Heussi, opposed Frick’s request, the students’ association, already dominated by National Socialist sympathizers, rebelled.—
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In an eight-page letter, Rachel Sheridan, the school’s rector, said there were no assurances from the federal government its scrutiny of the university would end with Ryan’s resignation.—
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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.—
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Broadway veteran Carole Shelley set the standard for the villainous headmistress Madame Morrible.—
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From practical to fascinating OLLI instructors are volunteers, including many UNT faculty members who take time to lead classes.—
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Devanshu Mehrotra, lead instructor of data science and data analytics at General Assembly, tells Fortune that these figures represent an expectation gap between employers and their workforce.—
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The longtime San Diegan worked as an acrobat, in airplane manufacturing, as a schoolteacher and in the real estate industry.—
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His dad, a former logger, and his mom, a former schoolteacher, founded West Wind in 2000.—
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In these and other cases, districts concluded the incidents did not amount to antisemitism or discrimination — rulings the state disagreed with, saying educators had not complied with state requirements and had violated anti-discrimination law.—
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The high risk of injury or death has spawned activism from teachers and students, as well as the uptick of educators quitting the profession.—
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Even for instructors that care about teaching, keeping student’s attention is increasingly challenging from pedagogues at elementary schools to graduate school professors at elite universities as students show up distracted and on their phones.—
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They are attracted to personalities that feel to them more like friends than pedagogues.—
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“Headmaster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/headmaster. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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