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Title
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Mildred Wright oral history interview 1, 2006 February 14
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Interviewee
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Wright, Mildred, 1933-
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Interviewer
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Wright, Christina
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Place of Publication
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Charlotte, North Carolina
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Publisher
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J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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Date of Interview
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2006-02-14
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Physical Description
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1 audio file (1:11:52) : digital, MP3 + 1 transcript (24 pages : PDF)
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Object Type
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sound recording-nonmusical
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Genre
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spoken word
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Language
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eng
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Interviewee Biography
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Mildred Wright was a 73-year-old woman interviewed at her home in Charlotte, North Carolina. She was born in Hendersonville, North Carolina in 1933. She earned an A.B. at Johnson C. Smith University and an M.Ed. at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and was employed as a teacher and principal at Irwin Avenue Open School, education director for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, and director of magnet schools for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.
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Abstract
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Mildred Wright recounts her career as an educator and administrator working with open plan schools in North Carolina, particularly her experiences helping to open, teach at, and manage Irwin Avenue Open School, the second functioning open plan school in North Carolina. Ms. Wright discusses how she became involved in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School System's early experiments with open education and the people and ideas that influenced the development of open schools in Charlotte. She describes her own training as a teacher and experiences as a school principal, and then considers how education in Charlotte has changed since the 1970s, especially in the area of mainstreaming bilingual and emotionally challenged children into the general school population.
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Digital Object Notes
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MP3 access copy created on ingest from WAV preservation master. Interview originally recorded on minidisc and reformatted using a Digidesign 003 rack.
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Interviewee Occupations
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Elementary school teachers
School principals
School administrators
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Subjects--Names
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Wright, Mildred, 1933-
Hunter, Madeline C.
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Subjects--Organizations
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Irwin Elementary School (Charlotte, N.C.)
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Subjects--Topics
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Open plan schools
Education, Elementary
School children--Education (Elementary)
Educational assessment
School management and organization
Total quality management in education
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Cultural pluralism
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Subjects--Geographic
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North Carolina--Charlotte
North Carolina--Winston-Salem
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Subjects--Genre
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Interviews
Oral histories
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Coverage--Dates
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1970-2010
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Digital Collection Title
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Open schools in Charlotte-Mecklenburg
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Rights
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This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
This material is protected by copyright. Copyright is held by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
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Internet Media Type
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audio/mpeg
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Related Interviews
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Mildred Wright and Patrick Cannon oral history interview, 2005 November 18, J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (https://goldmine.uncc.edu/islandora/object/uncc%3A2596); Mildred Wright oral history interview 2, 2006 February 22, J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (https://goldmine.uncc.edu/islandora/object/uncc%3A2595)
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Identifier
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OH-WR0425
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Handle URL
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13093/uncc:2597
