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Title: Brenda Bilal oral history interview 2, 2005 January 13
Creator: Bilal, Brenda, 1950-
Date Created: 2005-01-13
Subjects--Topical: Open plan schools, Multiculturalism, Educational tests and measurements, Active learning, Independent study
Description: In part two of this two-part interview, Brenda Bilal continues discussing her experience with open education in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system. Ms. Bilal criticizes the current trend in mainstream education at the time of interview of inc...

Title: Carol Newman oral history interview 1, 2005 December 14
Creator: Newman, Carol, 1946-2007
Date Created: 2005-12-14
Subjects--Topical: Open plan schools, Student-centered learning, Teachers, Experiential learning, Teachers--In-service training
Description: Carol Newman, longtime administrator with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) system discusses her involvement with the city's open school program between 1974 and the 1990s. Mrs. Newman describes her early interest in open education, whi...

Title: Carol Newman oral history interview 2, 2006 February 23
Creator: Newman, Carol, 1946-2007
Date Created: 2006-02-23
Subjects--Topical: Open plan schools, Student-centered learning, Teachers, Experiential learning, Teachers--In-service training, Magnet schools, Federal aid to education, School integration
Description: In this second interview, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) administrator Carol Newman continues to discuss the successes and challenges of the city's open schools program, but also focuses on the emergence and significance of magnet school...

Title: Mary Lou and Jim Babb oral history interview, 1999 July 14
Creator: Babb, Mary Lou, 1948-
Date Created: 1999-07-14
Subjects--Topical: Open plan schools, School integration, Busing for school integration, Race relations, Public schools, Students, Parents' and teachers' associations
Description: Mary Lou and James "Jim" Babb recount their family's experiences attending West Charlotte High School during the height of school busing for integration in Charlotte, North Carolina during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Topics discussed include t...

Title: Sue Spayth Riley oral history interview, 2005 September 13
Creator: Riley, Sue Spayth, 1920-2006
Date Created: 2005-09-13
Subjects--Topical: Unitarian Universalist churches--Education, Open plan schools, Education, Preschool--Curricula, Preschool teachers, School integration, Progressive education--Philosophy, Teacher-student relationships
Description: Sue Spayth Riley describes her experiences as the founder and director of Charlotte's first integrated and open preschool, the Open Door School. Ms. Riley attributes her decision to establish the Open Door School to a combination of influence...