It wasn’t until education became standardized in the mid-19th century that we invented the firm school year, and summer as a byproduct, says Kenneth Gold, a professor of education at the College of Staten Island, in the Washington Post article “Ready, set, relax: Memorial Day starts the clock on summer.”
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