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- English
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About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: In Search of Para Power
- 1 From Aides to Paras: Creating New Forms of Educational Work
- 2 âThey Made Themselves Essentialâ: Paraprofessional Educators Go to Work in New York City, 1967â1970
- 3 âThe Triumph of the Paraprofessionalsâ: Paraprofessional Educators Unionize in New York City, 1967â1970
- 4 âYou Can Never Believe Your Good Luckâ: Paraprofessional Educators and Their Allies in New York City in the 1970s
- 5 A Union of Paraprofessionals? The American Federation of Teachers and Paraprofessional Organizing in the 1970s
- 6 New Careers and Parent Implementation: New York Models for Federal Education Programs
- 7 âMayor Koch, Meet a Workaholicâ: Fiscal Crisis, Political Realignment, and the End of the Paraprofessional Movement
- Epilogue: Paraprofessional Educators on the Front Lines, Once Again
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index