The Myth of Educational Reform with Dr. Bettina Love

The Preamble

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode of Here’s Where It Gets Interesting, we’re discussing all things public schools: The good, the bad, and the controversial. Joining Sharon is Dr. Bettina Love, Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University who has a new book out: Punished for Dreaming. Between chronic school underfunding, pressure placed on standardized testing, the devaluing of educators, teacher burnout, and a list of ongoing systemic challenges, many agree that something needs to change in the school system. The word “reform” is bandied about, but what does “reform” actually mean? And how do school segregation issues – past and present – show up, and impact education for generations to come?

Special thanks to our guest, Dr. Bettina L. Love, for joining us today.

Host/Executive Producer: Sharon McMahon

Guest: Dr. Bettina L. Love

Audio Producer: Jenny Snyder

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0:00.0	Hello friends, welcome, as always so happy that you're here with me and my goodness.
0:11.0	Today's episode, I am chatting with Dr. Bettina Love, who is a professor of education,
0:18.9	and we are discussing all things public schools today, good and bad.
0:23.3	This is an episode you do not want to miss, so let's dive in.
0:30.0	I'm Sharon McMahon, and here's where it gets interesting.
0:34.9	I am really excited to be joined today by Dr. Bettina Love.
0:38.1	Thank you so much for your time.
0:39.4	I'm very, very much looking forward to this conversation.
0:43.2	Oh, thank you so much for having me.
0:44.6	This is great. Thank you.
0:46.1	Oh, it's truly my pleasure.
0:48.0	I would love to hear more about your experience as an educator.
0:52.8	Like teachers I always love to hear from other teachers.
0:56.0	There's a lot of teachers listening to this, and there's a lot of parents who are listening to this.
0:59.4	There's a lot of people who care about American history listening to this.
1:02.8	So I really love that your work is really the intersection of all of these different topics.
1:08.5	So tell us a little bit more about your background.
1:12.7	So I was born and raised at Upstate New York, I'm from Rochester, New York,
1:16.4	and I grew up in a loving, thriving, black community.
1:20.5	You know, people probably don't know that Rochester, New York during the 80s and 90s
1:25.0	was the home of Xerox, Kodak, Bosch Alarm, Paychex, Raghu, Champions for Seagrams.
1:32.1	It was just an amazing place, and I had amazing teachers.
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