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The Power in the Room

Radical Education Through Youth Organizing and Employment

Radical Education Through Youth Organizing and Employment

By Jay Gillen

By Jay Gillen

By Jay Gillen

By Jay Gillen

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Category: Nonfiction

Category: Nonfiction

Paperback $17.95

Sep 24, 2019 | ISBN 9780807064542

Ebook $12.99

Sep 24, 2019 | ISBN 9780807064702

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    About The Power in the Room

    How community-centered, peer-to-peer, youth knowledge exchanges are evolving into a strong economic and political foundation on which to build radical public education.

    Following in the rich traditions in African American cooperative economic and educational thought, teacher-organizer Jay Gillen describes the Baltimore Algebra Project (BAP) as a youth-run cooperative enterprise in which young people direct their peers’ and their own learning for a wage. BAP and similar enterprises are creating an educational network of empowered, employed students.

    Gillen argues that this is a proactive political, economic, and educational structure that builds relationships among and between students and their communities. It’s a structure that meets communal needs—material and social, economic and political—both now and in the future. Through the story of the Baltimore Algebra Project, readers will learn why youth employment is a priority, how to develop democratic norms and cultures, how to foster positive community roles for 20–30 year-olds, and how to implement educational accountability from below.

    About The Power in the Room

    How community-centered, peer-to-peer, youth knowledge exchanges are evolving into a strong economic and political foundation on which to build radical public education.

    Following in the rich traditions in African American cooperative economic and educational thought, teacher-organizer Jay Gillen describes the Baltimore Algebra Project (BAP) as a youth-run cooperative enterprise in which young people direct their peers’ and their own learning for a wage. BAP and similar enterprises are creating an educational network of empowered, employed students.

    Gillen argues that this is a proactive political, economic, and educational structure that builds relationships among and between students and their communities. It’s a structure that meets communal needs—material and social, economic and political—both now and in the future. Through the story of the Baltimore Algebra Project, readers will learn why youth employment is a priority, how to develop democratic norms and cultures, how to foster positive community roles for 20–30 year-olds, and how to implement educational accountability from below.

    Product Details

    Category: Nonfiction

    Paperback | $17.95
    Published by Beacon Press
    Sep 24, 2019 | 200 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 | ISBN 9780807064542

    Category: Nonfiction

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Beacon Press
    Sep 24, 2019 | 200 Pages | ISBN 9780807064702

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    Praise

    “Readers interested in the intersection of political activism, economics, community, and education will find ample food for thought in Gillen’s insightful call for action.”
    —Library Journal

    “A must-read for activists and theorists who are concerned about democratic life in contemporary America.”
    —Theresa Perry, author of Young, Gifted, and Black: Promoting High Achievement Among African-American Students

    “A visionary tour de force built on a rock-solid foundation of teaching and organizing.”
    —William Ayers, coauthor of “You Can’t Fire the Bad Ones!”: And 18 Other Myths About Teachers, Teachers’ Unions, and Public Education

    “Anyone who wants to learn how to support youth development outside the dominant paradigms needs to wrestle with Gillen’s argument that economic empowerment, political activism, and education aren’t three different things; for Black people, they are three aspects of one thing. An extraordinarily important book, one Ella Baker would have loved.”
    —Charles Payne, author of I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement

    Table Of Contents

    Foreword

    INTRODUCTION
    Organizing, Economics, and the African American Educational Tradition

    PART I: Structures

    CHAPTER 1
    From Crawl Spaces to a Youth Economy

    CHAPTER 2
    Solving Our Own Problems

    CHAPTER 3
    Building Capacity

    PART II: Re-rooting Education

    CHAPTER 4
    An Educational Bureaucracy Built on Violence

    CHAPTER 5
    Base Communities: Re-rooting Education

    CHAPTER 6
    Accountability, the National Student Bill of Rights, and the Legacy of Struggle

    Acknowledgments
    Notes

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