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Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

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In a powerful follow-up to her bestselling, influential We Want To Do More Than Survive, Dr. Bettina L. Love shows education--whether you have children or not, are an educator or not--as integral to social justice and true democracy as issues of poverty, housing, healthcare and policing. Urgent and stirring, Punished For Dreaming is a book deeply in conversation with The New Jim Crow, White Rage, Caste, and Poverty By America.

NOW A NEW YORK TIMES AND A USA TODAY BESTSELLER

WINNER, 2024 GODDARD RIVERSIDE STEPHAN RUSSO BOOK PRIZE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE

FINALIST, LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE

“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.”

—Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times b...

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