In 1990, he was named Pennsylvania's Teacher of the Year for his role as an eighth-grade English teacher and took on leadership positions in education committees.

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Speaking to the BBC, the retired English teacher said his portrayal had been an almost "surreal experience".

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He started his career as a high school English teacher and football coach, building spec houses on the side in the summer.

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The owner, a retired English teacher, had lost his wife and daughter.

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My middle school English teacher and the film His Girl Friday, starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell, made me more interested in journalism.

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Some folks have faulted McCullough, an English teacher at Wellesley, for his tough words.

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Murray did not aid his cause by beginning an affair behind his wife's back with a 23-year-old English teacher turned lap dancer, Nadira Alieva.

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BANGKOK, Thailand (CNN) -- Handcuffed, his head covered with an old blue T-shirt to hide his face from the cameras, Christopher Paul Neil, a 32-year-old Canadian English teacher, was escorted through the throngs of waiting news media outside Thailand's national police headquarters.

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We called them Bermanites, after their intellectual and sartorial model, an English teacher named Robert Berman: a small, thin, unsmiling man who papered over the windows of his classroom door so that no one could peek through.

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