Interview with Nikki Brittain

Interview with Nikki Brittain

Brittain, Nikki, 1976-

Educational tests and measurements

Elementary school teachers

Private schools

Public schools

School environment

Teachers -- North Carolina, Western

Teaching -- Evaluation

Nikki Britain, a teacher with experience in both public and private schools, talks about her passions and frustrations with teaching. She compares her different experiences and talks extensively about the problems involved with public schools’ focus on testing students. This interview was conducted to supplement the traveling Smithsonian Institution exhibit “The Way We Worked,” which was hosted by WCU’s Mountain Heritage Center during the fall 2018 semester.

Brittain, Nikki

WCU Oral History Collection - HIST 474/574

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1980s; 1990s; 2000s (Decade); 2010s;

2018-10-12

Abernathy, Laura

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application/pdf; audio/mp3;

sound recordings

transcripts

interviews

eng

Sound

Text

36050

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/36050

2019-04-24

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Burke County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

20 pages (transcript)(duration)

37:22 (sound recording)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina