Para Power: How Paraprofessional Labor Changed Education

Tales from the Reuther Library
21/08/2025 59 min
Para Power: How Paraprofessional Labor Changed Education

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Dr. Nick Juravich discusses the experiences of the first-generation of paraprofessional educators in New York City in the 1960s-1980s and their impact on the city’s educational system, community relations, and public sector unions. Juravich is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Boston and author of Para Power: How Paraprofessional Labor Changed … Continue reading Para Power: How Paraprofessional Labor Changed Education

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