Educating For Insurgency

Desegregation has failed. Schools filled with black and brown students have become plantations of social control. Radical teachers and organizers in American public schools must help young people fashion an insurgency. This innovative book, written in the spirit of Paulo Freire, explains what such a rebellion means and how to create it: the tools and techniques needed to build social, cognitive, and political power.

Jay Gillen teaches English in a Baltimore public school and has worked with the Algebra Project since 1995, building math literacy among youth of color and youth experiencing poverty in US public schools.