Bettina L. Love discusses Punished for Dreaming
Join us for an author presentation and Q&A from Dr. Bettina L. Love. Featured on the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize 2024 longlist, Love’s PUNISHED FOR DREAMING reckons meaningfully with the impact of 40 years of racist public school policy on a generation of Black lives.
In 1983, the Reagan administration published A Nation At Risk, a report that solidified the idea that American public schools were falling behind the standards of other western countries. In response, the next four decades would see public schools implement and then teach to standardized tests; private interests increasingly allowed to infiltrate the educational system through charter schools, No Child Left Behind, and waivers; merge the War on Drugs with the war on Black children; and increase racial, ethnic, and class stratification within schools and between school districts.
Locating herself as an 80s baby, Love explores how her own youth was shaped by a public school divided into two worlds in which opportunity blossomed for one group and the carceral state loomed for the other. Through Love’s own story and stories of her peers, the book makes the case for reparations.
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Dr. Bettina L. Love is the William F. Russell Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University and the bestselling author of We Want To Do More Than Survive. In 2022, the Kennedy Center named Dr. Love one of the Next 50 Leaders making the world more inspired, inclusive, and compassionate. A co-founder of the Abolitionist Teaching Network (ATN), whose mission is to develop and support teachers and parents fighting injustice within their schools and communities, they have granted over $250,000 to abolitionists around the country. She is also a founding member of the Task Force that launched the program In Her Hands, distributing more than $15 million to Black women living in Georgia. In Her Hands is one of the largest guaranteed income pilot programs in the U.S. Dr. Love is a sought-after public speaker on a range of topics, including abolitionist teaching, anti-racism, Hip Hop education, Black girlhood, queer youth, educational reparations, and art-based education to foster youth civic engagement. In 2018, she was granted a resolution by Georgia's House of Representatives for her impact on the field of education.
Join us for an author presentation and Q&A from Dr. Bettina L. Love. Featured on the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize 2024 longlist, Love’s PUNISHED FOR DREAMING reckons meaningfully with the impact of 40 years of racist public school policy on a generation of Black lives.
In 1983, the Reagan administration published A Nation At Risk, a report that solidified the idea that American public schools were falling behind the standards of other western countries. In response, the next four decades would see public schools implement and then teach to standardized tests; private interests increasingly allowed to infiltrate the educational system through charter schools, No Child Left Behind, and waivers; merge the War on Drugs with the war on Black children; and increase racial, ethnic, and class stratification within schools and between school districts.
Locating herself as an 80s baby, Love explores how her own youth was shaped by a public school divided into two worlds in which opportunity blossomed for one group and the carceral state loomed for the other. Through Love’s own story and stories of her peers, the book makes the case for reparations.
PARTICIPANT
Dr. Bettina L. Love is the William F. Russell Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University and the bestselling author of We Want To Do More Than Survive. In 2022, the Kennedy Center named Dr. Love one of the Next 50 Leaders making the world more inspired, inclusive, and compassionate. A co-founder of the Abolitionist Teaching Network (ATN), whose mission is to develop and support teachers and parents fighting injustice within their schools and communities, they have granted over $250,000 to abolitionists around the country. She is also a founding member of the Task Force that launched the program In Her Hands, distributing more than $15 million to Black women living in Georgia. In Her Hands is one of the largest guaranteed income pilot programs in the U.S. Dr. Love is a sought-after public speaker on a range of topics, including abolitionist teaching, anti-racism, Hip Hop education, Black girlhood, queer youth, educational reparations, and art-based education to foster youth civic engagement. In 2018, she was granted a resolution by Georgia's House of Representatives for her impact on the field of education.
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