How community-centered, peer-to-peer, youth knowledge exchanges are evolving into a solid economic and politics foundation which to develop radical public education.

Following in the rich traditions in BLACK cooperative economic and educational thought, teacher-organizer Jay Gillen explains the Baltimore Algebra Task (BAP) like a youth-run cooperative enterprise where teenagers direct their peers’ and their own learning for any income. BAP and equivalent companies are creating an educational network of empowered, used students.

Gillen argues that is a proactive politics, economic, and educational structure that builds relationships among and between learners and their communities. It’s a structure that fits communal needs-material and social, economic and political-both right now and in the foreseeable future. Through the storyplot of the Baltimore Algebra Task, readers will find out why youth work is a priority, how exactly to develop democratic norms and ethnicities, how exactly to foster positive community functions for 20-30 year-olds, and how exactly to put into action educational accountability from below.