{"product_id":"punished-for-dreaming-how-school-reform-harms-black-children-and-how-we-heal-1","title":"Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNOW A \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e AND A \u003ci\u003eUSA TODAY\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER, 2024 GODDARD RIVERSIDE STEPHAN RUSSO BOOK PRIZE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFINALIST, \u003ci\u003eLOS ANGELES TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BOOK PRIZE \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I am an eighties baby who grew to hate school. I never fully understood why. Until now. Until Bettina Love unapologetically and painstakingly chronicled the last forty years of education 'reform' in this landmark book. I hated school because it warred on me. I hated school because I loved to dream.\"  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Ibram X. Kendi, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eHow to be an Antiracist\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the tradition of Michelle Alexander, an unflinching reckoning with the impact of 40 years of racist public school policy on generations of Black lives\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePunished for Dreaming, \u003c\/i\u003eDr. Bettina Love argues that Reagan's presidency ushered in a War on Black Children. New policies punished schools with policing, closure, and loss of funding in the name of reform, as white-savior egalitarian efforts increasingly allowed private interests to infiltrate the system. These changes implicated children of color, and Black children in particular, as low performing, making it all too easy to turn a blind eye to their disproportionate conviction and incarceration. This book examines how decades of racist education policies have paved the way for the current structural overhaul of American schools. In this prequel to Michelle Alexander's \u003ci\u003eThe New Jim Crow\u003c\/i\u003e, Dr. Love serves up a blistering account of four decades of educational reform through the lens of the people who lived it. Then with input from leading U.S. economists\u003cb\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003eDr. Love offers a road map for repair, arguing for reparations with transformation for all children at its core.","brand":"Bettina L Love","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47282921275628,"sku":"9781250383082","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781250383082.jpg?v=1770362215","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/punished-for-dreaming-how-school-reform-harms-black-children-and-how-we-heal-1","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}