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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 bestselling author of How to be an Antiracist

In the tradition of Michelle Alexander, an unflinching reckoning with the impact of 40 years of racist public school policy on generations of Black lives

In Punished for Dreaming Dr. Bettina Love argues forcefully that Reagan's presidency ushered in a War on Black Children, pathologizing and penalizing them in concert with the War

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      Publisher: St Martin's Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 12/09/2023
      ISBN13: 9781250280381, 978-1250280381
      ISBN10: 1250280389
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      Biography: general Ethnic groups and multicultural studies

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 bestselling author of How to be an Antiracist

      In the tradition of Michelle Alexander, an unflinching reckoning with the impact of 40 years of racist public school policy on generations of Black lives

      In Punished for Dreaming Dr. Bettina Love argues forcefully that Reagan's presidency ushered in a War on Black Children, pathologizing and penalizing them in concert with the War

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