One female lawyer, now 58, says she met her earliest power nemesis in the first grade.
First grade teachers gathered in the cafeteria to welcome their students into the fold.
In 1990 less than one-tenth of all students who entered first grade went on to graduate from sixth.
But five years old is first grade, and first graders have a long way to go to reach maturity.
But then I started thinking about my own boys, aged 7 and 5, in first grade and kindergarten, respectively.
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The approach taken by my teachers from first grade through high school was that I was lazy, stupid or both.
In first grade, whenever someone made a mess in the classroom, the teacher would ask a student to get the janitor.
Ask them why an A-grade from the gun lobby is more important than keeping kids safe in a first grade classroom.
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To rectify the problem, he's decreed that English be taught in all schools beginning in first grade and computer education in second.
She had to be pulled out of fifth grade because she could not pass the test for 7-year-olds -- a first grade level.
Thus, in Madagascar, Rwanda, Chad and Togo, there are at least 20 more pupils on average in the first grade than in the last.
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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Elena meets her brilliant friend at school, in the first grade.
The first grade is lower quality merchandise, which Li said tends to be distributed domestically or exported to other developing markets in Africa and Latin America.
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.
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.
"We thought the horse was beaten when we saw a re-run and we would have settled for a dead-heat, " said Sheehy, who was celebrating his first Grade One win.
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Ask them why getting an A-grade from the gun lobby is more important than giving parents some peace of mind when they drop their child off for first grade.
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.
Back in India when I was making the leap from kindergarten to first grade, it was The Times of India and other newspapers that became my primary sources for reading, grammar, comprehension and general knowledge.
Under the Saudi Education Ministry's method of rote learning, these teachings amount to indoctrination, starting in first grade and continuing through high school, where militant jihad on behalf of "truth" has for years been taught as a sacred duty.
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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The "ethyl in my gasoline, " as he once described it, was an intense pride in achievement, something that first overtook him at the end of the first week of first grade when his teacher in the one-room schoolhouse in Possum Hollow praised him for mastering the alphabet in five days.
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In truth, the other thing pushing parents to send kids to preschool is the cold reality that kindergarten has become the new first grade, with parents pushing academic learning earlier with the fear that their kids will fall behind if they don't meet major milestones like reading well before what is considered normal.
First-grade teacher Kaitlin Roig heard what sounded like the rapid firing of an assault rifle.
Ignoring bad behavior was the hardest part of applying the techniques, said first-grade teacher Tara Irizarry.
General Motors got some good news Friday: its first investment grade credit rating since going bankrupt in 2009.
Now, seven months later, Taylor is beginning to read and does first-grade math.
Should they defer to their husband when he insists that she stop kissing their first-grade son at school drop-off?
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