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Secondary Source Publications on Elementary & Secondary Education A-J

Please note that researchers interested in a specific locale should consult the library catalog for local city and county histories which often feature sections on education (for example, conduct a keyword search on "Natchez history" and another on "Adams County history").

Earl Wayne Adams.  "The History of Public School Finance in Mississippi."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1980.

Martha Land Adkins.  "The Status of Music Education in the Public High Schools of Mississippi, 1979-80."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, 1981.  Call Number:  MT3 M7 A34.

Jackson Harold Ainsworth.  "An Analysis of the Perceptions of Mississippi's Elected Officials toward Selected Community Education-Related Factors."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, 1979.  Call Number:  LC215 A55x.

Mary Ellen Alexander.  Rosalie and Radishes:  A History of Long Beach, Mississippi.  Hagerstown, MD:  Hagerstown Bookbinding & Printing Co., 2001.  Appendix includes listing of early school teachers, principals, and superintendents.  Call Number:  F349 L65 A44 2001.

Mia Diane Alexander-Snow.  "African American Graduates of the Piney Woods School and Their Academic and Social Integration at Two Traditionally White Universities."  Ph.D. Dissertation, Vanderbilt University, 1999.  Mississippi African American boarding school.  Call Number:  LC2731 A44 1999a.

Annette Cacioppo Allen.  "An Evaluative Study of the Public Secondary School Libraries/Media Centers of Mississippi, 1976-1977."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1977.  

Bobby D. Anderson.  The Law and the Teacher in Mississippi:  A Guide for Teachers, Administrators, and Potential Teachers.  Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, [1975].  Call Number:  KFM6990 A95.

Mary Louise Anderson.  "The Status and Role Perceptions of the Supervisor of Instruction in Mississippi Public Schools."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, 1978.  Call Number:  LB2805 A575.

John Joseph Arnold.  "Assessing the Quality of Public Education in Mississippi."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1970.

Mary Susan Avery.  "The Development of the Mississippi Program for Exceptional Children with Emphasis on the Personnel Preparation and Professional Status of Special Education Teachers."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Alabama, 1979.  Call Number:  LC4032 M7 A9 1979.

Kathryn Head Aycock.  "The Degree of Desirability of Certain Components of Education Service Agencies for Mississippi."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1981.  

Bryan Monroe Baker.  "A Study of the Teacher Work Loads in Senior High Schools of Four Single District and Four Multi-District Counties in the State of Mississippi."  Thesis, Mississippi State University, 1970.  Call Number:  LB1620 B336

William Henry Barber.  "Needs for Special Education Services as Perceived by Administrators of Mississippi's Accredited Public Schools."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1972.  Call Number:  LC4032 M7 B36

Dolores Watts Barnett.  "A Parent Education Approach to Attitude Change for Parents of Title I Primary Pupils in Batesville Elementary School, Batesville, Mississippi."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1980.  

Marion Elizabeth Barton.  "The LAST as a Predictor of Readiness and Achievement of Grade One Benton County Children."  Essay, University of Mississippi, 1976.

Carl Edgar Beeman.  "Perceptions of School Administrators, Vocational Agriculture Teachers and Members of the Lay Public Concerning the Changing Role of Vocational Agriculture in Mississippi."  Thesis, Cornell University, 1967.  Call Number:  LC1046 M7 B443.

Jon Bellini.  Child's Prey.  New York:  Pinnacle, 2001.  Pearl, Mississippi school shooting.  Call Number:  LB3013.33 M7 B45 2001.

Ritter Vaughn Bennett.  "A Comparison of Principals' and Teachers' Perceptions of Program Quality in Mississippi Kindergartens."  Ph.D. Dissertation, Kansas State University, 1978.  Call Number:  LA313 B45.

Mary E. Best.  Seventy Septembers.  [Techny, IL]:  Holy Spirit Missionary Sisters, 1988.  African American Catholic schools in Mississippi.  Call Number:  LC502 M7 B47 1988.

David Ray Bishop.  "Financial Equalization among the Public School Districts of Mississippi from State and Federal Aid Programs."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1973.  Call Number:  LB2826 M7 B56.

David L. Blackstock.  "The Mississippi School Health Service, 1942-1972."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1973.  Call Number:  LB3405 B43.

Victor J. Blair Jr.  "A Study of Parents' and Students' Perceptions of Public Schools of a Selected School District in Mississippi."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, 1980.  

Clinton Wheeler Boals.  "A Study of the Mississippi High School American Government Teachers."  Dissertation Abstract, University of Mississippi, 1979.

Charles C. Bolton.  The Hardest Deal of All:  The Battle over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980.  Jackson:  University Press of Mississippi, 2005.  Call Number:  LC214.22 M7 B65 2005.

Sidney Selvin Boose.  "A Study of the Programs of Vocational Agricultural Education in the Secondary Schools of Mississippi."  Thesis, Indiana University, 1954.  Call Number:  S534 M7 B6

Glenn Franklin Boyce Jr.  "The Perception of Role Delineation between Mississippi Public School Board Presidents and Superintendents."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1996.

Carlos L. Boyte Sr.  "A Comparison of Attitudes of School Personnel in Selected School Districts in Mississippi toward the Career Education Concept and Its Relationship to the Total Curriculum."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1974.  Vocational education.  Call Number:  LC1046 M7 B63.

Stephen A. Brasfield.  "A Study of Changes in School Programs that May Have Resulted from Certain Recommendations Made by Visiting Committees that Applied the Evaluative Criteria to Thirty-One Mississippi High Schools."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1956.

James Herman Brewer.  "A Comparative Analysis of Mississippi's Educational Financing System with Selected Equalization Criteria."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1973.  Call Number:  LB2826 M7 B72.

Ralph Brewer.  "A Study of the Attitudes of Public Secondary School Counselors and Principals in Mississippi toward Basic Guidance Services."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, 1970.  Call Number:  LB1620.5 B7.

William Kent Brooks.  "A Study of the Attitudes and Teaching Behaviors of Occupational Orientation Teachers in Mississippi."  Ph.D. Dissertation, Ohio State University, 1974.  Vocational education.  Call Number:  LC1045 B76.

Gipsie Joy Broom.  "An Historical Study of the Mississippi Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1971.  Call Number:  GV203 M5 B7.

Robert S. Brown.  History of the Mississippi School for the Deaf.  Meridian, MS:  Gower Printing & Office Supply, [1954].  Call Number:  HV2561 M7 B7.

Wilbur C. Brown.  "Organization and Management of Sixteenth Section Land Grants in Mississippi during the Years 1950-1975."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1976.  School lands.  Call Number:  LB2827 B76.

William Richard Brown Jr.  "A Comparison of the Seven Major Fire and Extended Coverage Insurance Plans for Public School Buildings as Applicable to Mississippi."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1971.

Ronald James Brownlee.  "Analysis of Opinions of Secondary Cooperative Distributive Education Teacher-Coordinators in Mississippi toward Recommended Coordination Activities."  Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1977.  Call Number:  HF5415.4 B76.

Gloria Hullum Bryant.  "Relative Similarity in Emphasis on Economics Education among Three Different Curricula in Mississippi."  Ph.D. Dissertation, Florida State University, 1978.  Call Number:  H62.5 U5 B79

Spurgeon Q. Bryant.  Black Leadership Fenced in by Racism.  Philadelphia:  Dorrance, [1974].  African American education.  Call Number:  E185.615 B79 1974

Sandra Reynolds Bubrig.  "An Analysis of Selected Teacher Competencies Included in the Evaluation of Mississippi Teachers during the Provisional Period of Certification."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1986.

Matylde Benjamin Buchanan.  "A Survey of Two Public High-School Libraries in Jackson, Mississippi."  Master's Thesis, Atlanta University, 1955.  Call Number:  Z675 S3 B8.

Evalyn Whitten Burkitt.  "A Study of Demographic Characteristics and Attitude and Knowledge of Mississippi Public School Board Members and Superintendents to Selected Educational Issues."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, 1980.  Call Number:  LB2831 B87

William Baxter Burns.  "The Priority of Industrial Arts Objectives and Their Degree of Attainment as Perceived by Selected School Personnel in Mississippi."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1975.  Call Number:  TT166 U6 B8.

Walter Butler.  "An Evaluation of the School Public Relations in Selected Secondary Schools in Mississippi."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, 1963.  Call Number:  LB2846 B8.

William Gibson Butt.  "A Documentary History of the Mississippi State Department of Education."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1953.  

David M. Callejo-Perez.  "Schools and the Formation of Black Identity during the Civil Rights Movement:  Change and Resistance in Holly Springs, Mississippi, 1964-1974."  Ann Arbor, MI:  UMI Dissertation Services, 2002.  Call Number:  LC214.23 H65 C348 2000a.

David M. Callejo-Perez.  Southern Hospitality:  Identity, Schools, and the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi, 1964-1972.  New York:  P. Lang, 2001.  School integration in Holly Springs, Mississippi.  Call Number:  LC214.23 H65 C35 2001.

James Boyd Campbell.  For the Public Good:  The Story of Boyd Campbell and the Mississippi School Supply Company.  New York:  Newcomen Society in North America, 1963.  Call Number:  LB3281 C3.

George Dickinson Cannon.  "A Categorical Analysis of Educational Content Disseminated through Selected Mississippi Newspapers during 1970."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, 1971.  Call Number:  LB2846 C35.

Terry Doyle Carroll.  "Mississippi Private Education:  An Historical, Descriptive, and Normative Study."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, 1981.  Call Number:  LC50 M7 C3.

Giles Martin Carter.  "A Survey of the Attitudes of Adult Basic Education Students in Mississippi."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, 1979.  Call Number:  LC5252 M7 C37.

Bela J. Chain.  "A Comparative Study of the School Districts in the State of Mississippi."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1968.   

Susan Spraberry Clark.  "A Study of the Relationship between Self-Concept and School Achievement in Fifth Grade Migrant Students in Mississippi."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1977.

Woodrow Wilson Clark.  "A System for Identifying, Classifying, Indexing, and Filing School Photographs by Distinguishing Features; and the Application of the System to Photographs of Schools of Thirteen Counties in Mississippi."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1958.

Sam Cobbins Jr.  "Industrial Education for Blacks Americans in Mississippi 1862-1965."  Ed.D. Dissertation, Mississippi State University, 1975.  Call Number:  LC1046 M7 C62

Albert Jerry Comfort Jr.  "An Assessment of the Effectiveness of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 in Selected Mississippi School Districts as Perceived by Superintendents, Title I Coordinators, Principals, and Teachers."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1969.  Call Number:  LB2826 M7 C65

Joseph Dawson Cooke Jr.  "A History and Analysis of Prisoner Education in Mississippi."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1990. 

Bobby Gene Cooper.  "The Effects of Desegregation and Black Elementary and Secondary Teachers in Mississippi."  Thesis, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1977.  Call Number:  LA230.5 M7 C66

Homer Sneed Coskrey Jr.  "A Comparison of the Status of the Public School System of Mississippi before and after Reorganization 1954-1957."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1963.  

William Lewis Costley.  "A Study of Mississippi Secondary School Counselors' Perceptions of the Public Junior College."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1977.  Call Number:  LB1620.5 C67.

Russell Joy Crider.  "Identification of Factors which Influence the Passage or Failure of School Bond Issues in Selected Counties of Mississippi."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1967.  Call Number:  LB2826 M7 C72.

Walter Lee Crockett.  "A Profile of Black Teachers in the Public School System in the State of Mississippi with Implications for Program Modification."  Thesis, Ohio State University, 1975.  Call Number:  LB2843 A3 C76.

Crawford Hines Cronin.  "Relationships between Roll Call Votes and Area Socioeconomics and Educational Measures in Mississippi."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1972.  Call Number:  LB2806 C68

Lloyd Hughes Crossley.  "An Assessment of High School In-Service Education Programs in Formerly Dual School Systems in Adjacent Portions of the Mississippi Delta of Arkansas and Mississippi."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1972.

Constance Curry.  Silver Rights.  Chapel Hill, NC:  Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1995.  School integration in Sunflower County, Mississippi.  Call Number:  F347 S9 C87 1995.

Hugh Harris Daniel.  "A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Vocational Training School at the Mississippi State Penitentiary."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1984. 

Whitman Davis.  Thomas Albert Smith Adams, Preacher-Teacher-Poet-Friend, One of Mississippi's Little Known Really Great Men.  1952.  Call Number:  LA2315 M7 A3.

Vivian Lamar Dearmon.  "A Survey of the Opinions of Mississippi School Boards toward Selected Titles of Federal Aid to Education."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1975.  Call Number:  LB2826 M7 D4.

Joan DelFattore.  The Fourth R:  Conflicts over Religion in America's Public Schools.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 2004.  Includes chapter "Mississippi Learning."  Call Number:  LC111 D43 2004.

Bobby Ray DePoyster.  "An Investigation of Need Assessment of School Children at Various Grade Levels in Selected Schools in Northeast Mississippi."  Thesis, Mississippi State University, 1971.  Call Number:  BF683 D46.

Hugh Leonard Dickens.  "A Study of the Organization for Decision-Making in Mississippi School Districts as Perceived by Superintendents."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1969.  Call Number:  LB2805 D52.

Charles Conrad Di Michele.  "The History of the Roman Catholic Educational System in Mississippi."  Ed.D. Dissertation, Mississippi State University, 1973.  Call Number:  LC502 M7 D55.

William Hunter Dodson.  "Roles of School Superintendents as Perceived by Superintendents, Principals and Board Members in Mississippi School Districts."  Ed.D. Dissertation, Mississippi State University, 1981.  Call Number:  LB2806 D63.

Joe William Dollar.  "An Analysis of the Activity Funds in the Predominantly White Schools of the Municipal Separate School Districts of Mississippi in the Fiscal Year 1964-1965."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1967.

Moss Eugene Doran.  "A Study of Temperatures Inside and Outside Selected Mississippi Class Rooms."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1978.  

George L. Dowd.  "The Development of Teacher Certification Standards in Mississippi."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1956.  

Van K. Dyess.  Rankin County Football History, 1949-1985.  [Star, MS:  Van K. Dyess], 1986.  School sports.  Call Number:  GV959.52 M7 D94 1986.

Charles Eagles.  Civil Rights Culture Wars:  The Fight over a Mississippi Textbook (Chapel Hill, NC:  University of North Carolina Press, 2017). Call Number:  E185.8 E24 2017.

Percy H. Easom.  Public School Legislation in Mississippi:  1860-1930.  Ph.D. Dissertation, George Peabody College for Teachers, 1937.  Call Number:  LB2529 M75 E3 1937a.

Michael Eskridge.  "Piney Woods Country Life School:  A Case Study."  Ed.D. Thesis, Seattle University, 1997.  African American boarding school in Mississippi.  Call Number:  LC2852 P52 E84 2000.

Karen S. Fagerberg.  "A Status Study of Biological Science Instruction in Selected High Schools in the State of Mississippi."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1972.  Call Number:  QH315 F33.

Willie S. Farmer.  "Legal Provisions Concerning the Use of Corporal Punishment in Pupil Discipline of the Public School Districts in the State of Mississippi."  Thesis, University of Colorado, 1977.  Call Number:  KFM392.6 F37.

Charles Edward Felder.  "A Description of the Decision-Making Process in a Selected County in Mississippi."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1974.  Political aspects of education.  Call Number:  LB2806  F44.

Martin William Fenerty.  "An Attitudinal Survey of Southern Choctaws on Traditional Amerindian Music in Early Childhood Education."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1981.

Bobby Eugene Ferguson.  "A Study of Alternative Pupil Transportation Plans for Two Selected Public School Districts in South Mississippi."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, 1979.  Pineville and Prairie View school districts.  Call Number:  LB2864 M7 F47

J.B. Flowers Jr.  "An Analysis of the Changed Roles of Mississippi Elementary and Secondary Public School Administrators in the Fourth Educational District of the Mississippi Teachers Association 1965-74."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1976.  Faculty integration.

Douglas Barcroft Floyd Jr.  "A Comparison of Pupil Achievement in a Team Teaching Program and a Traditional Program in the Lower Elementary School Grades in Indianola, Mississippi."  Thesis, Mississippi State University, 1974.  Call Number:  LB1027 F6.

John Lamar Fortenberry.  "A History of the Legal Provisions of Mississippi School Boards and a Handbook for School Board Members."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1956.

Robert Jack Freeman.  "A History of Selected Areas of Vocational Education in the Public Schools of Mississippi."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1958.    

Rodney Noel Friery.  "Drug Usage among High School Students in a Mississippi Community."  Thesis, Mississippi State University, 1976.  Call Number:  HV5831 M57 F75.

Charles Ray Fulton.  "Racial Integration in the Public School System in Kemper County, Mississippi, 1954-1974."  Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1978.

De Lars Funches.  "The Superintendent's Expectations of the Negro High School Principals in Mississippi."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Oklahoma, 1961.  Call Number:  LB2822 F8.

Joe L. Galloway.  "A Study of Relationships between Leader Behavior of Mississippi Public Elementary School Principals and Teacher Morale."  Thesis, Mississippi State University, 1975.  Call Number:  LB2822.5 G354.

Olen Wayne Gann.  "The Effect of Selected Reinforcement Techniques on Average Daily Attendance in a Mississippi High School."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1972.

Robert H. Gaunt.  "Perceptions of Selected Mississippi School Leaders toward Community Education Related Factors."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1977.  Call Number:  LC215 G38

Max Roland Gessner.  "A Study of Educational Goal Perceptions of Parents, Students, and Educators in a Selected Mississippi School District."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1974.  Call Number:  LB2806 G39

Nola Kay Pearson Gibson.  "A Biography of Governor William F. Winter with Special Emphasis on His Contributions to Improving Education in Mississippi."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1993. 

Sylvia Reedy Gist.  "Educating a Southern Rural Community:  The Case of Blacks in Holmes County, Mississippi, 1870 to Present."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Chicago, 1994.  Call Number:  LC2802 M7 G58 1994.  Call Number:  LC2802 M7 G58 1995

Lewis William Godlove.  "A History of the Mississippi Education Association."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1961.

Paul Wesley Graham.  "The County Superintendent of Education in Mississippi."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1953.

James Wendell Grantham.  "A Study of the Problems of Beginning Teachers in Selected Secondary Schools of Mississippi."  Ph.D. Dissertation, Indiana University, 1961.  Call Number:  LB1777 G7.

Elizabeth Ann McMillan Green.  "A Study of the Development of Elementary Education in Bolivar County, Mississippi, 1838-June 1970."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1972.  Call Number:  LB1561 M7 G74.

Polly Greenberg.  The Devil Has Slippery Shoes:  A Biased Biography of the Child Development Group of Mississippi:  A Story of Maximum Feasible Poor Parent Participation.  Washington, DC:  Youth Policy Institute, 1990.  Reissue of 1969 edition by Macmillan.  Head Start program in Mississippi.  Call Number:  LC4092 M7 G7 1990.

Ralph Herman Gremillion.  "An Investigation into the Effects of a Change in Educational Environment and Social Studies Curriculum upon Selected Middle-School Pupils in Madison County, Mississippi."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, 1969.  Call Number:  LC4092 M7 G67.

Vivia W. Gunn.  "A Study of Principal and Counselor Services in Selected High Schools in the State of Mississippi."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1972.  Call Number:  LB1027.5 G85.

John Edward Hall.  "A Design for Organizing and Administering Reading Programs in Consolidated High Schools for Negroes in Mississippi."  Ed.D. Dissertation, New York University, 1961.  Call Number:  LB1632 H3

John Howard Hanbery.  "The Influence of the Drum and Bugle Corps on the High School Marching Bands in the State of Mississippi."  Dissertation Abstract, University of Mississippi, 1976.

David McWilliams Haraway.  "A Study of the Visual Environment in Classrooms of Selected Elementary School Buildings in the State of Mississippi."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1975.

Theron Dewey Harden Jr.  "Use of the Otis-Lennon Ability Test to Determine the Basal Scores of Black Students in Order to Predict High School Dropouts in New Albany, Mississippi."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1972.

Louis R. Harlan.  Separate and Unequal; Public School Campaigns and Racism in the Southern Seaboard States, 1901-1915.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, [1958].  Call Number:  LC2801 H28.

Johnny L. Harris.  "An Historical Analysis of Educational, Economic, and Political Changes in Fayette, Mississippi from 1954 to 1971."  Ph.D. Dissertation, Florida State University, 1972.  Call Number:  E185.93 M6 H37.

Alferdteen B. Harrison.  Piney Woods School, an Oral History.  Jackson:  University Press of Mississippi, 1982.  Call Number:  LC2852 B72 H37 1982.

Don Amil Harrison.  "A Study of the Impact of the Desegregation-Integration Processes on the Public AA Size High Schools of Mississippi as Perceived by Selected Principals."  Ph.D. Education, University of Mississippi, 1976.

Arlena Smith Hasel.  For the Sake of the Sheepskin:  A Promise to Big Ma.  Lima:  Ohio Fairway Press, 1997.  Blue Mountain, Mississippi education.  Call Number:  LD3381 M61 H3754 1997

Denise von Herrman, ed.  Resorting to Casinos:  The Mississippi Gambling Industry.  Jackson:  University Press of Mississippi, 2006.  Includes a chapter "The Financial Implications of Casino Gambling on State and Local Education Policy in Mississippi."  Call Number:  HV6711 R47 2006

Trois G. Hill.  "A Study of Moral Education Perceptions of Elementary and High School Principals in the Public Schools of Mississippi."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1976.  

Daniel P. Hinman-Smith.  "'Does the Word Freedom Have a Meaning?':  The Mississippi Freedom Schools, the Berkeley Free Speech Movement and the Search for Freedom through Education."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1993.  Call Number:  E185.93 M6 H52 1995.

A History of Thaxton High School, Thaxton, Mississippi, 1893-1971.  [Thaxton, MS:  Thaxton High School, 1982].  Call Number:  F349 T4 H57 1982

The History of Zeta State, 1934-1984, Golden Anniversary; The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International.  Itawamba County Times, [1984].  Mississippi division of an honorary society for women leaders in education.  Call Number:  LJ145 D58 H5 1984

Neola Lee Hollingsworth.  "Self-Perceptions of Administrative Style of Public School Principals in Mississippi."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1978. 

Joe Earl Holloway.  "An Analysis of the Leadership Behavior of Selected High School Principals in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, 1969.  Call Number:  LB2806 H6.

Lewis Dale Holloway Jr.  "The Relationship of Reading Achievement of Sixth Grade Students in Two Selected Southeastern Mississippi School Districts to Parental Attitudes toward School and Parental Socioeconomic Status with Students Mental Ability Held Constant."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, 1980.  Call Number:  LB1573 H64.

Donald Lanier Hopper.  "A Study of a Regional Education Service Agency in Mississippi."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1976. 

Linda Geno Huddleston.  "A Survey and Report on the Elementary Libraries in the Prentiss County School System."  Master's Thesis, University of Mississippi, 1972. 

George Duke Humphrey.  Public Education for Whites in Mississippi:  A Historical and Interpretive Study.    Thesis, Ohio State University, 1939.  Call Number:  LA313 A5 H8 1939

Mildred Hudgins Hust.  "The Positions, Roles and Perceptions of Black Elected Public School Board Members in Mississippi."  Thesis, North Texas State University, 1977.  Call Number:  LB2831 H88

Broadus B. Jackson.  Civil War and Reconstruction in Mississippi:  Mirror of Democracy in America.  Jackson, MI:  Town Square Books, 1998.  Includes content on African American education.  Call Number:  F341 J33 1998.  

David H. Jackson.  A Chief Lieutenant of the Tuskegee Machine:  Charles Banks of Mississippi.  Gainesville:  University Press of Florida, 2002.  African American education in Mississippi.  Call Number:  E185.97 B216 J33

Jimmie James.  "A Study of the Relationship between Race and Musical Preference of Black and White Senior High School Students in Three Selected Areas of Mississippi."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1973.  Call Number:  ML64 J35

Linuel Duane Jayroe.  "Kirby Pipkin Walker, Superintendent, Jackson Municipal Separate School District, 1937-1969."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1983. 

Elton Ray Jenkins.  "A Study of the Preferred Leadership Style of Mississippi School Superintendents."  Ed.D. Dissertation, Mississippi State University, 1980.  Call Number:  LB2801 M7 J45.

Martha Patricia Jobe.  "The Attitudes of Mississippi Legislators toward the Establishment of Public Kindergartens in the State of Mississippi."  Thesis, University of Mississippi, 1976.  

Clarence B. Johnson.  Integration Versus Segregation in Mississippi Schools.  New York:  Vantage Press, 1992.  Call Number:  LC214.322 M7 J6 1992.

Leslie Hardy Johnson.  "The Attitudes of Selected Mississippi Public School Teachers, Principals, Superintendents, and School Board Members toward the Concept of Educational Accountability."  Thesis, Mississippi State University, 1977.  Call Number:  LB2809 M7 J6.

Martha Faye Clark Johnson.  "Analysis of the Secretarial Duties and Salaries in Class AA and Class A Secondary Public Schools in Mississippi for the Purpose of Developing an Educational Syllabus."  Ed.D. Dissertation, Mississippi State University, 1980.  Call Number:  LB2844.4 J5356.

Robert Edward Johnson.  "A Study of the Role of the Mississippi State Department of Education in Selected Areas of Its Function."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1971. 

James B. Johnston.  "A Taxonomic and Statistical Analysis of Attitudes, Opinions, Scope, and Selected Content Areas of Environmental Education in Mississippi."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1973.  Call Number:  QH541.2 J63

Michael Johnston.  In the Deep Heart's Core.  New York:  Grove Press, 2002.  Greenville, Mississippi high school.  Call Number:  LA2317 J625 A3 2002.

Carolyn Austin Jones. “A Survey of Perceived Needs of Adult Education Faculty at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman.” Ed.D. Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1978. Call Number: HV8875 J65.

James H. Jones.  "The Role of the School Attorney in Mississippi Public School Districts."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1978.

Laurence C. Jones.  Piney Woods and Its Story.  New York:  Fleming H. Revell Co., [1922].  Piney Woods Country Life School.  Call Number:  LC2852 B72 J6

Robert Lawrence Jordan.  "An Analysis of the Music Education Program in the Public High Schools of Mississippi."  Thesis, Mississippi State University, 1967.  Call Number:  MT3 U5 J67.

Secondary Source Publications on Elementary & Secondary Education K-Z

Dorothy W. Kalehoff.  "Selected Personal Characteristics of the Adult Basic Education Student in Mississippi."  Ed.D. Dissertation, Mississippi State University, 1970.  Call Number:  LC252 M7 K3.

John Newman Kamman.  "An Annotated Bibliography of Books Being Read by Mississippi High School Boy for Popular Reading."  Master's Thesis, University of Mississippi, 1968.

Eun-Ja Kim.  "A Survey of Instructional Materials in Use for Handicapped Children in State of Mississippi."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1974.  Call Number:  LC4032 M7 K55.

Lloyd Bowie Kite.  "Public School Legislation in Mississippi, 1930 to 1955."  Ph.D. Dissertation, George Peabody College for Teachers, 1956.  Call Number:  LB2529 M74 K5 1956.

Giulia R. LaCagnina.  "An Analysis of Learning Climates and Student Attrition Rates in Adult Basic Education in the State of Mississippi."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, 1979.  Call Number:  LC5252 M7 L3

Marvin Amos Law.  "A Survey of Current Fiscal Practices for Designated Adult Education Agencies in Mississippi."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1977.  Call Number:  LC5252 M7 L39

Ullin Whitney Leavell.  "Philanthropy in Negro Education."  Ph.D. Dissertation, George Peabody College for Teachers, 1930.  Call Number:  LB5 G4 no.100

Billy Eugene Lee.  "Federal Receipts and Expenditures in Mississippi as Related to Education and Other Areas, 1952-1961."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1963. 

Chul Koo Lee.  "The Relationships between Organizational Climate and Performance Evaluation of the Principals of Selected High Schools in Mississippi."  Thesis, Mississippi State University, 1974.  Call Number:  LB2822 L44.

David Earl Lee.  "A Status Study of the Public High School Principalship in Mississippi."  Thesis, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechancial College, 1976.  Call Number:  LB2822 L45.

George E. Leggett.  "A Comparative Study of the Attitudes of Selected Personnel in Mississippi toward Secondary Vocational Education and the Relationship of These Attitudes to Selected Variables."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, 1978.  Call Number:  LC1046 M7 L45

Cynthia W. Liddell.  "Mississippi Elementary-School Principals' Perceptions of Kindergarten, Goals, Principles, and Program Characteristics as Recommended by the Mississippi State Department of Education."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1986.

Carl Edwin Lindgren.  "Panola Education:  A Historical Interpretation of the Educational Factors between 1836 and the Present which Led to the Formation and Growth of the South Panola Consolidated School System."  FCP Diploma, College of Preceptors (Essex), 1993.  Call Number:  LA314 P3 L5 1993.

C.E. Lindgren.  Panola Remembers:  Education in a Southern Community.  Kearney, NE:  Morris Publishing, 1994.  Panola County, Mississippi.  Call Number:  LA314 P3 L52 1994.

John P. Lipscomb.  "Personality Traits of Educable Mentally Retarded and Learning Disabled Elementary Children in Mississippi Public Schools."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, 1980.  Call Number:  LC4705.5 M7 L56.

Marvin Wayne Lishman.  "An Historical and Status Survey of the Member Schools of the Mississippi Private School Association from 1974-1989."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1989.

Georgianna Heywood Lowen.  "A Study of Elementary Education Majors' Knowledge of Conservation Concepts and Democratic Processes at the University of Southern Mississippi."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1970.  Call Number:  QH541.2 L69.

Myra Faye Macon.  "A Comparison between the Perceptions of Librarians and Media Specialists of the Services which Should Be Performed by School Library Media Supervisors in Mississippi."  Thesis, Mississippi State University, 1977.  Call Number:  Z675 S3 M2.

Bruce Duncan Mactavish.  "With Strangers United in Kindred Relation:  Education, Religion and Community in Northern Mississippi, 1836-1880."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1993. 

Beverly B. Maddox.  "An Analysis of Middle School Goal Perceptions of Teachers in Mississippi Middle Schools."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1976.  Call Number:  LB1623 M33.

Paul Louis Mann Jr.  "Personality and Success Characteristics of High School Band Directors in Mississippi."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, 1979.  Call Number:  MT733 M35.

George Louis Marcoulier.  "Out-of-School Activities and Professional Performance of Selected White Elementary and Secondary School Principals in the State of Mississippi."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, 1963.  Call Number:  LB2822.5 M3.

Harry D. Marsh.  Hodding Carter's Newspaper on School Desegregation, 1954-1955.  Columbia, SC:  Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 1985.  Greenville, Mississippi newspaper.  Call Number:  PN4722 J6 no. 92.

Woodrow Lee Marsh Jr.  "Superintendent Manpower Needs of Municipal Separate School Districts of Mississippi for the Years 1968-1978."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1968.

Ernest Buford Martin.  "Teacher Supply and Demand in Mississippi, 1962-63."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Alabama, 1963.  Call Number:  LB2833 M36.

Frances G. Martin.  "An Analysis of Student Reading Choices, John Rundle High School, Grenada, Mississippi."  Master's Thesis, University of Mississippi, 1966.

William E. Mason.  "A Study of a Planned Character Education Program in 9th Grade Literature Classes in Rural North Mississippi Using Romeo and Juliet."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1993.

Barbara P. Massey.  "A Comparative Analysis of Sex-Role Attitudes of Administrators and Teachers in the Public Schools of Mississippi."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, 1979.  Call Number:  BF692.2 M38.

Kenneth Wayne Mathis.  "An Historical and Status Survey of Members Schools of the Mississippi Private School Association from 1957-1974."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1975.

Edward Mayes.  History of Education in Mississippi.  Washington, DC:  Government Printing Office, 1899.  Call Number:  LA313 A5 M3.

Ira Cook Mayfield.  "An Evaluative Analysis of Mississippi's Programs for Financing Public Elementary and Secondary Education."  Ph.D. Dissertation, Florida State University, 1961.  Call Number:  LB2826 M7 M3

Paul Edwin McArdle.  "A Study of Teacher Attitudes toward Faculty Integration in Mississippi."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1970.

Jimmy Ray McCalla.  "The Relationship of Teacher Morale to the Racial Composition of the Student Bodies in Selected Mississippi High Schools."  Thesis, Mississippi State University, 1976.  Call Number:  LB2832 M325.

Joseph Daniel McClung.  "School Organization, School Climate, and Student Outcomes:  A Study of K-8 and Middle Schools in Northeast Mississippi."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1995.

Allan L. McClure.  "An Analysis of Teacher Turnover between 1969-70 and 1970-71 School Sessions in the State of Mississippi."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1971.  Call Number:  LB2833.3 M7 M324.

Douglas McDonald.  Tenure of School Superintendents in Mississippi, 1943-1967.  University, MS:  Bureau of Educational Research, 1968.  Call Number:  LB2833 M55.

Sidney Jean McKay.  "Secondary One-Grade Schools in Mississippi:  A Study of the Effects of Alexander et al. v. Holmes County Board of Education et al (1969) on Instrumental Music."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1975.  Call Number:  LB2822 M33.

Laura Lynn McKnight.  "Lessons in Freedom:  Race, Education, and Progress in a Mississippi Delta Community since 1965."  M.A. Thesis, University of Mississippi, 1996.  

Cleylon Lee McLarty.  "Characteristics Related to the Festival Performance of Mississippi High School Bands."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1963.  

Rayburn Wayne McLeod.  "A Study of the Graduates' Perceptions of the University of Southern Mississippi's Master's Degree Program for Preparation of School Principals."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1977.  Call Number:  LB2831.924 M7 M34

Yvonne C. McNeill.  "An Appraisal of Business Education Offerings in the Public State Accredited Secondary Schools in Mississippi."  Thesis, Mississippi State University, 1971.  Call Number:  HF1131 M22.

Joel Philip McNich Jr.  "An Investigation of the Personnel Management Function of Mississippi School Districts."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1977.  Call Number:  LB2801 M5 M32.

Gerald H. Metcalf.  "A Study of Factors Influencing the Strength of Selected School Programs as Perceived by Citizens, Teachers, and Students in a Mississippi School District."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, 1978.  Call Number:  LA313 M37.  

MHSAA State Football Championships:  The First Century.  Star, MS:  HS Sports, 2000.  Mississippi High School Activities Association.  Call Number:  GV959.52 M7 M47 2000.

Jeanne Marie Middleton.  "The History of Singleton v. Jackson Municipal Separate School District:  Southern School Desegregation from the Perspective of the Black Community."  Ed.D. Dissertation, Harvard University, 1978.  Call Number:  LC214.22 M7 M5.

Richard T. Middleton III.  "A Comparison of Decisions by State and Federal District Courts in Mississippi with National Trends in Selected Areas of Student and Teacher Rights Since 1955."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1972.  Call Number:  KFM6993 M53.

William Elbert Middleton.  "The History and Development of Public School Transportation in Mississippi."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1959.

Ruby Nan Bostick Midkiff.  "The Extent of Use of Instructional Television in Mississippi Public Schools and Factors which Encourage, Limit, or Prevent Usage."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1984. 

Cecil Drew Miller Sr.  "The Economic Feasibility and Desirability of a State Property Insurance Program for Mississippi Public Schools."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, 1980.  Call Number:  LB2830.5 M47.

Mercy Bowden Miller.  "The Effects of Real Property Assessment on the Amount of Local Initiative in the School Districts of Mississippi."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, 1963.  Call Number:  LB2826 M7 M45.

Louella G. Milner.  "A Study of High School Counseling Services Provided Freshmen of the University of Southern Mississippi."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1968.  Call Number:  LB1620.5 M54.

Henry Dustin Mirick Jr.  "Conflicting Desires:  The Development of the Mississippi Public Schools, from 1890-1906."  M.A. Thesis, Columbia University, 1963.  Call Number:  LA313 M42 1963.

Mississippi Authority for Educational Television.  Progress:  The Mississippi ETV Story.  Jackson:  1977.  Call Number:  LB1044.7 M548.  

Philip Charles Monier.  "A Study of Private Industry Performance Contracting in a Selected Mississippi School District."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1972.  Call Number:  LB2806.2 M65

Jimmy Cariker Moore.  "An Analysis of the Perceptions of Mississippi Lay Citizens Toward Selected Community Education-Related Factors."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, 1978.  Call Number:  LC215 M66 1979

Elvira J. Morris.  "The Self-Perceived Responibility, Authority and Delegation of Principals in Mississippi Elementary Schools as Related to the Variables Race and Sex."  Ph.D. Dissertation, Mississippi State University, 1979.  Call Number:  LB2822.5 M67.

John Ellis Morris.  "Values of High School Social Studies Teachers in Mississippi:  A Study of Attitudes toward Contemporary Issues and Their Implications for the Social Studies Curriculum."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1969.

Willie Morris.  Yazoo:  Integration in a Deep-Southern Town.  New York:  Harper's Magazine Press, [1971].  School integration in Yazoo City, Mississippi.  Call Number:  LA315 Y38 M6 1971.

John Robert Morton.  "Knowledge Necessary for a Free Man."  Mississippi State, MS:  The Author, 1939.  Adult education.  Call Number:  HM35 M65.

Belinda Long Mothershed.  "A Descriptive Profile of Mississippi Special Education Administrators and Competencies Desirable for the Position."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1984.

Andrew P. Mullins Jr.  Building Consensus:  A History of the Passage of the Mississippi Education Reform Act of 1982.  [1992].  Call Number:  LA313 M84 1992.

Andrew P. Mullins Jr.  "A History of the Mississippi Education Reform Act of 1982."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1992.

Benjamin Muse.  Ten Years of Prelude:  The Story of Integration since the Supreme Court's 1954 Decision.  New York:  Viking Press, [1964].  Call Number:  E185.61 M989

Charles Ray Nash.  "A Comparison of Student Attitudes toward Self, Peers, Teachers, Principals and School Environment in Selected Middle Schools and Junior High Schools in Mississippi."  Thesis, Mississippi State University, 1974.  Call Number:  LB1623 N3 1975

Jere Nash and Andy Taggert.  Mississippi Politics:  The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006.  Jackson:  University Press of Mississippi, 2006.  Includes the chapter "Education Transforms the Legislature, 1982."  Call Number:  F345 N37 2006

Margaret Vance Naugle.  "A Comparison of the EDL Learning 100 Program and the Workbook Method of Teaching Reading to Choctaw Adults."  M.A. Thesis, Mississippi State University, 1980.  Call Number:  E97 N38x.  

Grayson B. Noley.  "The History of Education in the Choctaw Nation from Precolonial Times to 1830." Ph.D. Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, 1979.  Call Number:  E97 N44x.  

William Old.  The Segregation Issue:  As It Appears Now.  Chesterfield, VA:  1959.  School integration in Virginia.  Call Number:  E185.61 O61 1959.

Clifton Earl Osborn.  "A Study of the Qualifications of Mississippi High School Biology Teachers and the Relationship of Student Achievement in Biology to the Subject Matter Preparation of the Biology Teacher."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1970.

Mary Scott Owen.  "The Effects of the ITV Series Figure Out on the Mathematics Achievement of Fifth-Grade Students in Mississippi."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1983.  

James Melvin Palmer.  "Mississippi School Districts Factors Related to the Disestablishment of Dual Systems."  Thesis, Mississippi State University, 1971.  Call Number:  LB3062 P35.

Bobby Hugh Papasan.  "A History of Sixteenth Section 'Lieu Lands' in the Chickasaw Territory of North Mississippi."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1982.  School lands.  

Tony V. Parker.  "A Comparison of the Chickasaw Cession School Districts and Those Districts Holding Sixteenth Section Lands."  Ed.D. Dissertation, Mississippi State University, 1991.  Mississippi school lands.  Call Number:  LB2826 M7 P37 1991a.

William Hilburn Parker.  "An Analysis of Tax Revenue Sources and Allocation Dimensions in the Public School Districts of Mississippi."  Thesis, Mississippi State University, 1972.  Call Number:  LB2826 M7 P3.

Robert Wesley Paskel.  "A Comparative Analysis of Selected Mississippi Municipal Separate School Districts and Their Respective County School Districts Including a Hypothetical Reorganization of the Districts."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, 1970.  Call Number:  LB2817 P3.

Cleveland Payne.  The Oak Park Story:  A Cultural History, 1928-1970.  [Laurel, MS]:  National Oak Park High School Alumni Association, 1988.  Oak Park Vocational High School in Laurel, Mississippi for African Americans.  Call Number:  LD7501 L387 P39 1988.

Rex Ray Pearce.  "The Professional Status of Mississippi Separate School District Superintendents."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1957.

Bobby Ray Perkins.  "The Perceptions of Mississippi Public School Principals and Superintendents of Team Management."  Thesis, Mississippi State University, 1976.  Call Number:  LB2806 P27.

Eulah Leana Peterson.  "A Study of Mississippi Public School Superintendents' and Selected Principals' Attitudes toward and Knowledges of Educating Exceptional Children in the 'Least Restrictive Environment.'"  Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1977.  Call Number:  LC4032 M7 P4.

Ivory Paul Phillips.  "Powerlessness and Enslavement as Problems Facing Black Americans:  A Proposed Course of Study for Black Secondary School Students in the State of Mississippi."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington, 1971.  Call Number:  E184.7 P3.

Oliver Otto Phillips.  "An Analysis of the Personal and Professional Characteristics of the Mississippi Public School District Superintendent, 1967-1968."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, 1969.  Call Number:  LB2806 P3.

Mary Alexander Phyfer.  "Attitudes of High School and Community College Personnel toward Three Rivers Community College."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1992.

Julian Day Prince Sr.  "A Study of the Mississippi Educational Assessment Program as Operated by the Mississippi State Department of Education during the 1976-77 and 1977-78 Academic Years."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1979. 

Gary Wayne Prosper.  "The Present Condition of and Potential Uses for Abandoned Public Elementary and Secondary School Buildings in Mississippi."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1970.

Leslie Harper Purcell.  Miracle in Mississippi:  Laurence C. Jones of Piney Woods.  New York:  Comet Press Books, [1956].  African American boarding school in Mississippi.  Call Number:  LC2852 B713 P8.

Olon Edward Ray.  "Property Self-Insurance for the Public Schools of Mississippi:  A Feasibility Study."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1975.  Call Number:  L2830.5 R3

Richard Pope Reese.  "Private Funds Used to Support Public Education in Selected Senior High Schools in the State of Mississippi."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, 1965.  Call Number:  LB2826 M7 R4

Research in Education.  [University, MS]:  Bureau of Educational Research, University of Mississippi.  Special Collections has issues from 1968 to 1984.  Call Number:  LB1028 A1 R47x

Thomas Leroy Richey.  "A Study of Attitude Changes of Teachers in Quitman County, Mississippi Consolidated School District as a Result of an In-Service Education Project."  Thesis, Mississippi State University, 1971.  Call Number:  LB3062 R52.

John David Rigsby.  "An Analysis of the Cost Fringe Benefits for Certified Teachers in a Selected Public School District in Mississippi."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1976.  Call Number:  HD4932 N6 R53.

Jerry H. Robbins and Stirling Williams.  The Administration of Public Education in Mississippi.  University, MS:  School of Education, 1969.  Third edition.  Call Number:  LB2809 M7 M5 1969

James Dixon Roberts.  "The Reasons that Jackson Mississippi High Seniors Felt Were Important When Choosing among Institutions of Higher Education."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1988.

Paul Clayton Rodgers.  "The Effect of Organizational Climate on School Morale of Students in Selected Junior High Schools in Mississippi."  Thesis, Mississippi State University, 1972.  Call Number:  LB1623 R63.

Beth Day Romulo.  The Little Professor of Piney Woods:  The Story of Professor Laurence Jones.  New York:  J. Messner, [1955].  African American boarding school in Mississippi.  Call Number:  LC2852 B713 J63.

Carroll Dewitt Russell.  "The Status and Duties of the Elementary Principal Serving in Selected Public Elementary Schools in the State of Mississippi."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1975.  Call Number:  LB2822.5 R86

Patricia Smith Sagen.  "Mississippi Public School Superintendents' Perceptions of Staff Development Procedures Used with Substitute Teachers."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1984.

James Allen Sansing.  "A Descriptive Survey of Mississippi's Private Segregated Elementary and Secondary Schools in 1971."  Thesis, Mississippi State University, 1971.  Call Number:  LC50 M7 S3.

Reed Sarratt.  The Ordeal of Desegregation:  The First Decade.  New York:  Harper & Row, [1966].  School integration in the South.  Call Number:  LC2801 S2

Charles W. Scott.  "The Social Composition of School Boards of the Separate School Districts in Mississippi."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1957.

Houston K. Seay.  "A Study of the Essential Elements for a Program of School Plant Planning in Mississippi."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1973.  Call Number:  LB3218 M7 S4.

Glenda Roby Segars.  "The Administrative Ethics of Mississippi Public School Superintendents and the Executive Educator 100 for 1986."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1987.

Marion Daniel Sephton.  "The Relationship between Changes in Socioeconomic Measures and Changes in Local Revenue Per Pupil in School Districts in Mississippi."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1972.  Call Number:  LB2826 M7 S4

Carlie C. Shafer.  "A Study of Historical and Legal Factors Influencing the Desegregation Process of the Public Schools in Mississippi."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1971.  Call Number:  LC214.22 M7 S3

Hsiao-Shen Shen.  "A Multivariate Analysis of Selected Measures of Federal Financial Aid to Public School Districts in Mississippi."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1976.  Call Number:  LB2826 M7 S44.

Whitney H. Shepardson.  Agricultural Education in the United States.  New York:  Macmillan Company, 1929.  Call Number:  S533 S5

Jeanne Marilyn Sherwood.  "A Comparative Study of Cognitive and Affective Strengths of Children with Kindergartin, Head Start, or No Formal Preschool Experiences in Lafayette County, Mississippi, as the Basis for a Modified First Grade Reading Program."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1979.  

Aleta A. Schexnayder.  "A Survey of Gifted Education in Mississippi:  Status and Needs."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1978.  Call Number:  LC3982 M7 S23.

Walter Malcolm Shackleford.  "A History of Teacher Education at the University of Mississippi."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1958.

James F. Shill.  "Educational and Occupational Aspirations, Expectations and Abilities of Rural Male High School Seniors in Mississippi."  Thesis, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1968.  Call Number:  LC5147 M7 S35.

Elizabeth F. Shores.  The Mississippi Early Childhood Association:  1953-1995.  [199-].  Call Number:  LB1555 S5 M57 1990z.

Ronald James Slay.  The Development of the Teaching of Agriculture in Mississippi; with Special Emphasis on Agriculture as a Part of School Curricula.  New York:  Teachers College, Columbia University, 1928.  Call Number:  LB5 C8 no.310

Ann Odene Smith.  God's Step Chilluns:  Poverty -- Raw and Evil, Naked and Ugly.  Detroit:  Harlo, 1981.  Biography of an African American Mississippi teacher.  Call Number:  LA2317 S619 A34 1981

James Harold Smith.  "A Study of the Relationship of Mississippi High School Students' ACT Assessment Program Test Scores and Probable Predictor Variables:  Implications for Performance on the ACT Assessment."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1995.

Jimmy Smith.  "The Role of the Superintendent as Perceived by Board of Education Chairmen and County Superintendents of Education in the State of Mississippi."  Ph.D. Dissertation, Kansas State University, 1979.  Call Number:  LB2832 S55.

John Bryant Smith Jr.  "Teacher Participation in Policy Making and/or Professional Negotiation as Perceived by the Superintendents in the Municipal Separate School Districts in Mississippi."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1971.

Louretta Smith.  Yesterdays at Little Springs.  Magnolia, MS:  Prescott's Printery, [1974].  History of education in Little Springs, Mississippi.  Call Number:  LA315 L57 S5 1974.

Robert L. Smith.  "Perceptions of Public High School Atheltic Coaches Regarding Changes in Authority Associated with Desegregation of Mississippi Schools, 1967-1974."  Thesis, Kansas State University, 1975.  Call Number:  LC214.32 M7 S55.

James C. Sones Jr.  "Assessment of Competencies Possessed and Needed by Local Vocational Administrators in Mississippi."  Dissertation, Colorado State University, 1978.  Call Number:  LC1047.822 M7 S6 1978

Southwide Educational Enterprises.  A Blueprint for the Future; Statewide Planning for Vocational Rehabilitation in Mississippi.  Final Report.  [Jackson, MS]:  1969.  Call Number:  HD7256 U5 S8

Christopher M. Span.  "Citizen or Laborer?:  The Social Purposes of Black Schooling in Reconstruction Mississippi, 1862-1875."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001.  Call Number:  LA313 S59 2001a.   

James Trafford Sparkman.  "A Comparison of the Per Pupil Costs of Instruction, Based on Teacher Salaries Only, by Subject Taught, for the Public White High Schools in Mississippi during the School Year 1955-1956."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1957. 

Somgiart Srijugawan.  "Performance Requirements for Adult Basic Education Teachers as Perceived by Adult Basic Education Teachers, Supervisors, and Professors of Adult Education in Mississippi."  Thesis, Mississippi State University, 1975.  Call Number:  LC5252 M7 S75.

Grace Wells Stark.  An Abstract of Beginnings of Teacher Training in Mississippi.  Nashville, TN:  George Peabody College for Teachers, 1945.  Call Number:  LB5 G4 no.373.

Virgil Vernon Strickland.  "A Study of the Attitudes of Mississippi Educators Relative to the Use of the Mississippi Teacher Assessment Instruments to Evaluate Career Teachers."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1987. 

Martha H. Swain, et al., eds.  Mississippi Women:  Their Histories, Their Lives.  Athens:  University of Georgia Press, 2003.  Includes two chapters:  "Pauline Van de Graaf Orr (1861-1955):  Feminist Education in Mississippi" and  "Mae Bertha Carter (1923-1999):  School Desegregation in a Delta Town."  Call Number:  CT3260 M57 2003

Mark A. Taylor.  "Assessment of the Implementation of the Mississippi Fine Arts Framework by Mississippi High School Choral Directors."  Dissertation Abstract, University of Mississippi, 1999.  

Constantine P. Thomas.  "A Historical Study of the Mississippi Teacher Corps."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1995.

George Martin Thomas.  "The Use of Modeling in Elementary School Guidance in the Meridian Separate School District in Mississippi."  Thesis, University of Alabama, 1973.  Call Number:  LB1027.5 T46.

Cleopatra D. Thompson.  The History of the Mississippi Teachers Association.  Washington, DC:  NEA Teacher Rights; Jackson, MS:  MTA, 1973.  Call Number:  LA313 T3

Julius E. Thompson.  Black Life in Mississippi:  Essays on Political, Social and Cultural Studies in a Deep South State.  Lanham, MD:  University Press of America, 2001.  Includes content on education.  Call Number:  E185.93 M6 T48 2001.  

Derwood L. Tutor.  "A Study of Attitudes of Decision-Makers Toward Revision of Mississippi's Minimum Education Program."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1977.  

Thomas Adams Upchurch.  A White Minority in Post Civil Rights Mississippi.  Lanham, MD:  Hamilton Books, 2005.  School integration in Durant, Mississippi.  Call Number:  F345.3 U73 A3 2005

James Milfred Valentine.  "An Investigation of Black Versus White-Teachers' Voice Quality Preference for Black Versus White High School Choral Students in Mississippi."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, 1980.  Call Number:  MT930 V34.

William Preston Vaughn.  Schools for All:  The Blacks & Public Education in the South, 1865-1877.  University of Press of Kentucky, [1974].  Call Number:  LC2802 S9 V38

George Monroe Vincent.  "A Study of Black School Board Members in Mississippi School Districts, 1969-1973."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Colorado, 1974.  Call Number:  LB2831 V47

Milton Gage Walker.  "Administration Effectiveness of Secondary School Principals in Mississippi as Related to Academic Preparation, Professional Experience, and Authoritarian Personality."  Thesis, Mississippi State University, 1976.  Call Number:  LB2822 W34.

Olga Fortenberry Walker.  "School Libraries in Alcorn County, Mississippi:  An Evaluation Survey."  Master's Thesis, University of Mississippi, 1959.

Robert Scott Walton. “Dogmatism, Self Concept, Vocational and General Education, and Recidivism in the Mississippi State Corrections System.” Ph.D., University of Southern Mississippi, 1978. Call Number: HV9305 M7 W34.

Donald Ray Warner.  "Supervisory Services of Principals in Selected Elementary Schools in Mississippi."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1966.  Call Number:  LB2822.5 W36

William Henington Weathersby.  A History of Educational Legislation in Mississippi from 1798 to.  Chicago, IL:  University of Chicago, [1921].  Call Number:  LB5 S8 no. 16

John R. Webster.  A Brief Historical Sketch of the Early Days of the Piney Woods School.  Piney Woods, MS:  The School, [1958].  African American boarding school in Mississippi.  Call Number:  LC2852 B713 W4.

Ronald Estes Whitehead.  "A Multivariate Analysis of the Determinants of Per Pupil Expenditures in Mississippi Public School Districts."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1973.  Call Number:  LB2826 M7 W35.

Robert N.S. Whitelaw et al.  A Study on Art in Education and in Industry:  For the State of Mississippi.  1948.  Call Number:  N8846 M7 S78 1948.   

Mary Gail Wildman.  "Challenges to Library Books in the Public High Schools of Mississippi, 1978-1985:  A Survey of High School Library Media Specialists."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, 1986.  Call Number:  Z658 M7 W543 1987

Charlette Williams.  "An Analysis of Student Library Skills and Opinions of the School Library by Tenth Grade Students and Faculty Members, Prentiss County, Mississippi, 1971-72."  Library Science Essay, University of Mississippi, 1972. 

Stirling Bascot Williams Jr.  "The Status of Selected Areas of the School Plant Administration Program in the Public Schools of Mississippi and the Development of Handbooks for the Maintenance and Administrators."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1968.  

Candace E. Williamson.  "The Scope and Potential of Vocational Horticulture in Existing Vocational Agriculture Programs in Mississippi."  Ph.D. Dissertation, Mississippi State University, 1979.  Call Number:  S534 W539 1979

Charles H. Wilson.  Education for Negroes in Mississippi since 1910.  Newton, MA:  Crofton Publishing, 1974.  Reprint of 1947 edition.  Call Number:  LC2802 M7 W5 1974

Elbert Dean Wilson.  "The Perceptions of Mississippi Public School Teachers of the Appropriate Roles of Professional Associations in Collective Bargaining and Protection of Teachers."  Thesis, Mississippi State University, 1974.  Call Number:  LB2804 W5

Mamie F. Wilson.  Old Salem Academy and It's First Principal, 1845-1862.  1959. Greene County, Mississippi.  Call Number: F341 M6 W5

Willie Leon Wilson.  "The Effect of Teacher-Pupil Sex Interaction and Teacher Age on Pupil Perception of Teacher Behavior in Junior and Senior High School Classes of English in Selected Mississippi Public Schools."  Thesis, Mississippi State University, 1973.  Call Number:  LB2838 W54

A. Russell Wing.  "An Evaluation of Selected Factors of the Special Education Teacher Preparation Programs at the State Supported Universities in Mississippi by Program Graduates Employed as Special Education Teachers in Mississippi Accredited Public Schools during the 1975-76 School Year."  Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1977.  Call Number:  LB2167 M7 W45.

Karl Wolfe.  Great Man -- Dr. Laurence Jones.  Reprint from Journal of Mississippi History.  Jones was the head of the Piney Woods Country Life School.  Call Number:  LC2852 B713 G74

Mary Ann Woodyard.  "The Effects of Teaching Black Literature to a Ninth-Grade Class in a Negro High School in Picayune, Mississippi."  Thesis, University of Tennessee, 1970.  Call Number:  PS41 W3

Ruth J. Yarber.  "School Libraries in Quitman County, Mississippi:  An Evaluation Survey."  Master's Thesis, University of Mississippi, 1959.

Bilbo Young.  "The Status of Public Secondary School Principals in Mississippi."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1955.  

Jon Charles Ziarko.  "Assessing Science Education at the Eighth Grade Level in Selected Public Secondary Schools in North Mississippi."  Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Mississippi, 1973.