Urban Teachers Lounge

G. Funmilayo speaks about Dr. Bettina Love’s new book highlighting; 1) mattering & abolitionist teaching, 2) education justice, 3) educational survival complex. Folks to Know 1. Bettina Love 2. Barbara Sizemore 3. Gloria Ladson-Billings 4. Derrick Bell What to Read 1. Anderson, C. (2016). White rage: The unspoken truth of our racial divide. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. 2. Coates, T. N. (2015). Between the world and me. Text publishing. 3. Dumas, M. J. (2016). Against the dark: Antiblackness in education policy and discourse. Theory into Practice, 55(1), 11-19. 4. Green III, P. C., Baker, B. D., Oluwole, J. O., & Mead, J. F. (2015). Are We Heading toward a Charter School Bubble: Lessons from the Subprime Mortgage Crisis. U. Rich. L. Rev., 50, 783. 5. Horn, J. (2016). Work hard, be hard: Journeys through" No Excuses" teaching. Rowman & Littlefield. 6. Love, B. L. (2019). We want to do more than survive: Abolitionist teaching and the pursuit of educational freedom. Beacon Press. 7. Williams, P. (19