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Author: Bettina Love

📘 We Want to Do More Than Survive by Bettina Love

Bettina Love, drawing on her experience teaching and researching in urban schools, argues that the U.S. educational system is maintained by and profits from the suffering of children of color. She critiques the pervasive "educational survival complex," which offers test‑taking skills, acronyms, grit labs, and character education as superficial fixes. Love calls for an educational revolution that teaches students about racial violence, oppression, and equips them with the tools to enact sustainable community change through radical civic initiatives and movements.

First publish date: 2019

Genre: Education & Language/Education

Authors: Bettina Love

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