School's in : the history of summer education and American public schools / Kenneth M. Gold. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gold, Kenneth M. (Kenneth Mark), 1966-

Series:

History of schools and schooling ; v. 25.

History of schools and schooling ; 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Summer schools--United States--History.

Summer schools.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 315 p. )

Place of Publication:

New York : P. Lang, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Summer time is thought of as a time of leisure or work rather than schooling for most students in the United States today. Kenneth M. Gold offers an account of the history of summer education that rejects the pervasive myth that summer vacation is a natural vestige of agrarian America and highlights a historic tension over the presence and absence of summer education in America 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 continue to remain familiar."--Jacket.

Contents:

"A time to reap and a time to sow?": rethinking rural school calendars in the nineteenth century

"No more rules, no more books": the elimination of summer terms from the nineteenth-century urban school calendar

"School's out for summer": ideology and the creation of summer vacation, 1840-90

"Mitigating mental and moral stagnation": reassessment of summer education and social transformations, 1865-1915

"Keeping up with Superintendent Jones": the origins, diffusion, and bureaucratic transformation of vacation schools, 1866-1929

"Easy credit": the limits of reputation and the structure of summer schools in Detroit, 1901-39

Epilogue: Summer school in the service of national education aims, 1930-2000

Appendix: The origins of vacation schools in the United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-307) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph