A Classroom Visit - A first grader's glimpse into education is a restless, difficult squint. Some of the coating is being rubbed away and, for the first time, boys and girls are pecking into the core that many people, although not all, feel is the school's reason for being - the core of reading and writing and figuring. In the first grade classroom of Mrs. Clara Enright at Jefferson School, for example, more than 30 boys and girls are shown the printed world dressed in frills of songs, games, stories, and much praise. The frills are sometimes just frills. On other occasions, they are important parts of the lesson. Yet a visit to the Jefferson classroom one afternoon last week revealed a few signs of children who found the days in the first grade a bit too long and found perhaps too many classmates around to compete for their teacher's attention...

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