But then I started thinking about my own boys, aged 7 and 5, in first grade and kindergarten, respectively.
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In first grade, whenever someone made a mess in the classroom, the teacher would ask a student to get the janitor.
To rectify the problem, he's decreed that English be taught in all schools beginning in first grade and computer education in second.
Their attitude is, we want our kids learning English when they're in first grade -- and we're laying off teachers here in North Carolina?
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They want their kids to learn English in first grade, and so I've had to ship in a whole bunch of foreign speaking teachers to meet the demand.
They studied bilingual programs in the Houston Independent School District and found that native-Spanish speakers were at or above grade level in English and Spanish in first grade through fifth grade.
"One old friend told me he had a huge crush on me in kindergarten, and it tore him apart when we weren't put in the same class in first grade, " she said.
Thus, in Madagascar, Rwanda, Chad and Togo, there are at least 20 more pupils on average in the first grade than in the last.
One female lawyer, now 58, says she met her earliest power nemesis in the first grade.
Elena meets her brilliant friend at school, in the first grade.
Founded in 1908, this is a program run by Southern Baptist churches for boys in first through sixth grade.
The Seattle district requires teachers to give the math and reading Measures of Academic Progress exam, or MAP, to students in first through ninth grade two or three times a year.
One of the winners, Shree Bose, did her first experiment in second grade by trying to turn spinach blue. (Laughter.) In fourth grade, she built a remote-controlled garbage can.
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Consider that this other story recently went viral throughout the Chinese blogosphere: an (as far as I can tell, apocryphal) account of the teaching of the Cinderella fairy tale in a Chinese first-grade classroom.
Ofqual's research found many schools used the marks pupils received in their first exams and the January grade boundaries to work out what score a pupil would need in their controlled assessment to get a certain grade and marked it accordingly.
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In many ways, those things rankle me more now than they did when I first read the book in the third grade (and made a mean shoebox diorama to boot).
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She chose to enroll in the local school and is trying again for first grade, signing up for the TestingMom.com site, enrolling in a popular prep school in Flushing on weekends and hoping to use a private tutor toward the end.
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First grade teachers gathered in the cafeteria to welcome their students into the fold.
In her first year of teaching second grade at Woodland West Elementary School, Monette turned one of the lowest-performing classes into one of the highest achieving.
Authorities investigating how 20-year-old Adam Lanza allegedly carried out the killings Friday morning said it could take weeks to draw a clear picture of what motivated the reclusive man to target two first-grade classrooms in one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history.
The youngest (Dzhokar Tsarnaev), was admitted to the first grade, and without even finishing the first grade he along with his family left in spring, in March.
He got his first pair of glasses in the third grade after years of fooling school nurses by memorizing the vision chart.
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He entered his first international science competition in the sixth grade and won a silver medal and then won gold medals in the 7th, 8th and 9th grades.
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In fourth-grade reading, six urban districts have participated since the exam was first given in 2002 and each posted gains of at least twice the national average of three points.
Despite the disappointing punctuality figures, companies' overall performance improved enough to ensure that, for the first time, none featured in the bottom grade E in the authority's performance table.
Though science has been her passion since first starting a science club in the third grade, Brittany has managed to master other talents as well as a varsity soccer player and mentor to students in her community.
While Glasgow was hunkered down in the closet, Waynel Mayes, a first-grade teacher, distracted her students with songs and games.
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