"Paraprofessional educators entered US schools amidst the struggles of the late 1960s. Immersed in the crisis of care in public education, paras improved systems of education and social welfare despite low pay and second-rate status. Understanding paras as key players in Black and Latino struggles for jobs and freedom, Nick Juravich details how the first generation of paras in New York City transformed work in public schools and the relationships between schools and the communities they served. Paraprofessional programs created hundreds of thousands of jobs in working-class Black and Latino neighborhoods. These programs became an important pipeline for the training of Black and Latino teachers in the1970s and early 1980s while paras' organizing helped drive the expansion and integration of public sector unions. An engaging portrait of an invisible profession, Para Power examines the lives and practices of the first generation of paraprofessional educators against the backdrop of struggles for justice, equality, and self-determination"--
Paraprofessional educators entered US schools amidst the struggles of the late 1960s. Immersed in the crisis of care in public education, paras improved systems of education and social welfare despite low pay and second-rate status.
Understanding paras as key players in Black and Latino struggles for jobs and freedom, Nick Juravich details how the first generation of paras in New York City transformed work in public schools and the relationships between schools and the communities they served. Paraprofessional programs created hundreds of thousands of jobs in working-class Black and Latino neighborhoods. These programs became an important pipeline for the training of Black and Latino teachers in the1970s and early 1980s while paras organizing helped drive the expansion and integration of public sector unions.
An engaging portrait of an invisible profession, Para Power examines the lives and practices of the first generation of paraprofessional educators against the backdrop of struggles for justice, equality, and self-determination.
Recenzijas
Para Power lifts up inspiring voices of education activists who struggled for collective power at the intersection of women's, workers, and civil rights during a pivotal historical moment. Juravichs analysis offers indispensable lessons for all who are committed to defending the common good today.--Jessica Wender-Shubow, former president, Brookline Educators Union
Acknowledgments
Introduction In Search of Para Power
From Aides to Paras: Creating New Forms of Educational Work
They Made Themselves Essential: Paraprofessional Educators Go to Work in
New York City, 19671970
The Triumph of the Paraprofessionals: Paraprofessional Educators Unionize
in New York City, 19671970
"You Can Never Believe Your Good Luck: Paraprofessional Educators and Their
Allies in New York City in the 1970s
A Union of Paraprofessionals? The American Federation of Teachers and
Paraprofessional Organizing in the 1970s
New Careers and Parent Implementation: New York Models for Federal Education
Programs
Mayor Koch, Meet a Workaholic: Fiscal Crisis, Political Realignment, and
the End of the Paraprofessional Movement
Epilogue Paraprofessional Educators on the Front Lines, Once Again
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Nick Juravich is an assistant professor of history and labor studies and the associate director of the Labor Resource Center at UMass Boston.
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