Summers Off?: A History of U.S. Teachers' Other Three Months - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Christine A. OgrenSeries:New Directions in the History of EducationPublish date:10/14/2025Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Rutgers University PressISBN-13:9781978831759ISBN-10:1978831757UPC:9781978831759Book Category:Education, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:History, Labor, SchoolsBook Topic:LevelsSize:9.32 x 6.38 x 0.91 inchesWeight:1.2214Product ID:SCN3EETECF
Summers Off?: A History of U.S. Teachers' Other Three Months
Since the nine-month school year became common in the United States during the 1880s, schoolteachers have never really had summers off. Administrators instructed them to rest, as well as to study and travel, in the interest of creating a compliant workforce. Teachers, however, adapted administrators' directives to pursue their own version of professionalization and to ensure their financial...
Series: New Directions in the History of Education
Language:EnglishPublisher:Rutgers University PressISBN-13:9781978831759ISBN-10:1978831757UPC:9781978831759Book Category:Education, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:History, Labor, SchoolsBook Topic:LevelsSize:9.32 x 6.38 x 0.91 inchesWeight:1.2214Product ID:SCN3EETECF
Christine A. Ogren is a professor at the University of Iowa. She is the author of The American State Normal School: "An Instrument of Great Good" and the coeditor of Rethinking Campus Life: New Perspectives on the History of College Students in the United States.
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