About the Book: The Power In The Room: Radical Education Through Youth
Organizing And Employment
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