Punished for Dreaming by Dr. Bettina L. Love is a critical examination of the effects of the War on Drugs during the Reagan era and the subsequent stigmatization and penalization of Black children.
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Bettina L. Love
Punished for Dreaming argues that forty years of American school reform, from A Nation at Risk through No Child Left Behind and the charter movement, did measurable harm to Black children, and that the harm was a policy outcome rather than an accident. Bettina L.…