Para Power: How Paraprofessional Labor Changed Education

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 Education . Related Resources: Para Power: How Paraprofessional Labor Changed Education Related Collections: AFT President’s Office: Albert Shanker Records AFT Massachusetts Federation of Teachers Records (LR001071) Kansas City Federation of Teachers, Local 691 Records (LR000624) United Educators of San Francisco Local 61 Records (LR000524) Episode Credits Interviewee: Nick Juravich Producers: Dan Golodner and Troy Eller English Music: Bart Bealmear

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Para Power: How Paraprofessional Labor Changed Education is an episode from Tales from the Reuther Library by Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University.

This episode is 59:13 long.

This episode was published on Aug 21, 2025.

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