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Antonio Mendoza tiene 16 a?os viven en un peque?o pueblo mexicano. Como crezca ?l toma conciencia de las escuelas mediocres y la corrupci?n entre los pol?ticos de su sociedad, con el dinero como ?nico valor. Cuando se trata de un profesor joven idealista ojos de Antonio de la ciudad est?n abiertos a diferentes valores, no del mundo material que vive en. Antonio Mendoza is a 16 year-old boy living in a small Mexican village. As he grows up he becomes...

Classic about a professor that invents an anti-gravity substance he names flubber, that makes inanimate objects and people fly.

Señorita Lulú's unusual teaching methods surprise her second grade students, especially reluctant learner A.J.

Latin teacher Raimund Gregorius finds a book by Portuguese poet and doctor Amadeu de Prado and his life is irrevocably changed. Determined to learn more about the author, Gregorius boards the night train to Lisbon and begins to piece together an epic story of oppression and revolution, loyalty and betrayal, love and jealousy, played out against the backdrop of a brutal fascist dictatorship. In his exploration of Amadeu de Prado's life, Gregorius finds...

Elizabeth is a foul-mouthed, ruthless junior high teacher who can't wait to marry her meal ticket and get out of her bogus day job. When she's dumped by her fiance, she begins to woo a rich, handsome substitute. Competing for his affections is overly energetic colleague, Amy. Elizabeth also finds herself fighting off the advances of a sarcastic gym teacher. The consequences of her outrageous schemes give her students, her coworkers and herself an...

"It was supposed to be a relaxing vacation in sweet, sunny Cape Cod-just me and my beloved brother-but discovering a corpse in our rental house really throws a wrench into our tanning schedule. Now a rude, crude bounty hunter has arrived on the back of his motorcycle to catch the killer and refuses to believe I can be helpful, despite countless hours of true crime podcast listening. Not to mention a fulfilling teaching career of wrangling second graders....

A Christian teacher is forced before a judge for honestly answering a question about Jesus in the classroom. With the principal and superintendent joining forces with a zealous civil liberties group, Grace faces an epic court case that could cost her the career she loves and expel God from the classroom.

Profiles Bartolome, an elementary school teacher in the Mexicos Chiapas, Mexico, who becomes an inspiration to his students because of his humanistic approach to education based on curiosity and the love of nature.

A veteran detective is forced to go undercover as a kindergarten teacher in order to trap an elusive criminal.

A teacher in England abandons the traditional curriculum of education in dealing with a class of students rejected by other schools.