Bettina Love on How Black Students are 'Punished for Dreaming'

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🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Brown v Board of Education, the landmark civil rights decision banning racial segregation in public schools, was supposed to give Black children greater educational opportunities. But instead, according to Columbia Teachers College professor Bettina Love, it marked the beginning of an anti-Black educational agenda, characterized by low academic expectations, excessive suspensions, surveillance and physical violence. Love grew up in the 1980s and 90s, a period when the Reagan and Bush administrations pushed ideas of “school accountability” and “school safety” that she says were used to justify punishment of Black children and that have harmed a generation. We talk to Love about her and her peers’ experiences in school as “eighties babies” and why she thinks reparations are essential to repair public education. Guests: Bettina Love, William F. Russell professor, Teachers College, Columbia University; author, "Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:37.6	Coming up on forum, if you went to public schools in the 80s and 90s, you went under the educational policies of the Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Clinton administrations.
1:50.2	Columbia University professor Bettina Love's new book, Punished for Dreaming, is a searing analysis of those policies and the impact of the last four decades of education reform on black students.
1:54.4	It's an accounting of the damage they caused and a call for repair.
1:57.2	Love joins us this hour, and we want to hear from you.
2:02.2	What do you remember about the way you or other black students were treated in your middle or high school years?
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2:35.6	Columbia University professor Bettina Love says that for too many black students in the 80s and 90s, high school was not a place of learning, but of harm. A place where students were punished with low expectations, physical violence, and suspensions. It was when the Reagan administration issued its 1983, a nation at risk report, which Love describes as full of alarmist language about the failures of U.S. public schools that proposed a get-tuff stance
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