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

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

“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 …

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