TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kenneth M. Gold
PY  - 2002
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1085-0678
TI  - School's In
T2  - The History of Summer Education in American Public Schools
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1094559
N2  - Why is summer a time of leisure or work rather than schooling for most students in the United States today? Kenneth Gold offers a fascinating and complex account of the history of summer education that rejects the pervasive myth that summer vacation is a natural vestige of agrarian America and highlights an historic tension over the presence and absence of summer education in American public schools. School’s In unravels the ideologies and politics surrounding the nineteenth-century demise of summer terms and the social concerns and conditions that gave rise to twentieth-century summer schools whose remedial features remain familiar today.
KW  - work, leisure, myth
LA  - English
ER  -