The Power in the Room: Radical Education Through Youth Organizing and Employment

by Jay Gillen

Book Overview

Describing how radical youth-led enterprises across the United States are allowing students to combat systemic educational inequality

Following in the rich traditions in African American cooperative economic thought, educator-organizer Jay Gillen describes the Baltimore Algebra Project (BAP) as a program in which students are paid to tutor their peers in disciplines such as algebra, drama, music, and language instruction. The young people...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807064548
• ISBN13: 9780807064542
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"