In 1986 there were about 8 million primary- and middle-school teachers in China, but many lacked professional training.

He played a middle-school teacher with a drug problem.

This 39-year-old middle-school teacher had previously put a shotgun to his young children's heads to try to get his wife to stay with him.

He became a middle-school teacher and wrestling coach.

Mr. Fentress, then a middle-school teacher, confessed to the crime the day it happened.

With smaller classes, a middle-school teacher might teach 90 students a year rather than 130 or 140.

"It's time for a change," said the recently remarried 41-year-old mother and middle-school teacher.

One winter, my middle-school teacher, a woman in her 60's, had to give me a pair of her old shoes.

Dr. Scales said that the first step should be a greater collaboration between current middle-school teachers and university professors.

She resigned as a middle-school teacher to pursue careers in television hosting, acting and music.