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A carregar... Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Healpor Bettina L. Love
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""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 on Drugs. 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. Today, there is little national conversation about a structural overhaul of American schools; cosmetic changes, rooted in anti-Blackness, are now passed off as justice. It is time to put a price tag on the miseducation of Black children. In this prequel to The New Jim Crow, Dr. Love serves up a blistering account of four decades of educational reform through the lens of the people who lived it. Punished for Dreaming lays bare the devastating effect on 25 Black Americans caught in the intersection of economic gain and racist ideology. Then, with input from leading U.S. economists, Dr. Love offers a road map for repair, arguing for reparations with transformation for all children at its core"-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Sometimes information that many of us know isn't really useful until someone brings these pieces together into a coherent whole. Anyone, especially an educator, knows the value in doing this. Bettina accomplishes this feat wonderfully here, making a compelling argument not for more reform but for a genuine rethinking of the education system. While this is presented largely because of the racial biases inherent in the current system, a rebuilding of a better system would benefit all children and, by extension, society.
Sometimes broad arguments and statistic-laden information can become both dehumanized and overbearing. Using examples from people who have experienced the ways in which the various "reforms" have done more harm than good puts a face to these statistics and arguments. I have to question the humanity of anyone who can read this and not come away with some kind of desire to make it better.
Ignore the disingenuous arguments about "better parenting," these are rationalizations for those who have extremely biased and hateful worldviews. No problem is so easily remedied and to pretend that systemic problems can be solved so easily is either an excuse for continued inequity or the sign of a truly stupid person. Or both.
Highly recommended for readers who are concerned about the state of our current education system and would like a well-researched and well-argued cohesive account.
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley. (