Education: School with Rule

At 7:30 one morning last week, 54 sober youngsters filed into the one classroom at Arizona Language School in Phoenix to end their longest vacation of the year—two weeks. Aged 3½ to 9. they were soon too busy to mind the room's 95° heat. Until 5 in the afternoon, the kids were drilled relentlessly in reading, writing, arithmetic, music and calisthenics—taught mostly in foreign languages. So it goes at Arizona for 9½ hours a day, five days a week, 48 weeks a year. "I teach them to concentrate," says hard-driving Founder Reese Fuller, 34....

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