11.   Fallon said she used to have frequent urinary tract infections when she taught the fifth grade.

12.   He also helped develop an alternative school in Roxbury and spent two years teaching fifth grade in Newton.

13.   His wife, Jane, teaches third grade.

14.   Hoorneman worked for years in LeMars, Iowa, near Sioux City, and mostly taught ninth grade.

15.   His mother taught first grade in nearby East Orange.

16.   I attended a one-room country schoolhouse in which eight very disparate grades were taught by a single overworked woman.

17.   I teach first grade, and I see more and more of it at school.

18.   I walked out thinking how tough it could be to teach first grade.

19.   I mean, my wife teaches third grade and even her kids know about it.

20.   Joan Koloze, who teaches third grade at a suburban Cleveland Catholic school, liked what she heard.