The Power in the Room: Radical Education Through Youth Organizing and Employment Audiobook (Free)

How community-centered, peer-to-peer, youth understanding exchanges are evolving right into a solid economic and political foundation which to construct radical public education.

Following in the rich customs in BLACK cooperative economic and educational thought, teacher-organizer Jay Gillen represents the Baltimore Algebra Project (BAP) as a youth-run cooperative enterprise where young people direct their peers’ and their own learning for the income. BAP and very similar companies are creating an educational network of empowered, utilized students.

Gillen argues that is normally a proactive political, financial, and educational structure that develops relationships among and between learners and their communities. It’s a structure that fits communal needs-material and interpersonal, financial and political-both right now and in the future. Through the story of the Baltimore Algebra Task, readers will learn why youth employment is a priority, how to develop democratic norms and ethnicities, how exactly to foster positive community assignments for 20-30 year-olds, and how to put into action educational accountability from below.