Jay Gillen

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

Mitwirkender: Butler, Ron

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Produktbeschreibung

Discover how youth knowledge exchanges are building an economic and political foundation for public education.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: DREAMSCAPE MEDIA
• Gesamtlaufzeit: 432 Min.
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781974989706
• Artikelnr.: 57580961

Autorenporträt

Jay Gillen has taught and organized in and around Baltimore City Public Schools since 1987. In 1994, after a 2-year organizing campaign, he became teacher-director of the new Stadium Middle School, the first community-controlled public school in Baltimore in many years. Working with graduates of the Stadium School, Gillen developed the peer-tutoring Baltimore Algebra Project (BAP).

Inhaltsangabe

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