Education

Public Schools- General

  • Case, Roscoe D. The Platoon School in America. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1931.

  • Division of Education, Purdue University. “Preliminary Report on a Cooperative Study of School Building Nees of the Munster City Schools, Munster, Indiana.” Purdue University Studies in Education No. 4-1957. West Lafayette, 1957.

  • Government and Tax Research Department, Greater Gary Chamber of Commerce. A Comparative Review of Seven Indiana Public School Systems. N.p., 1972.

  • Lake County, Indiana, Committee for the Reorganization of School Corporations. A Comprehensive Plan for the Reorganization of School Corporations. 2 vols. Crown Point: Lovell, Coryell & Co., 1961.

  • Leonard, Robert S. Some Facts Concerning the People, Industries and Schools of Hammond and a Suggested Program for Elementary, Industrial, Prevocational, and Vocational Education. Hammond: Board of Education, 1915.

  • Protsman, Roscoe E. The District Schools of St. John Township, Lake County, Indiana. Schererville, 1970.

  • U.S. Public Health Service. Rural School Sanitation, Including Physical and Mental States of School Children in Porter County, Indiana. Washington, D.C., 1916.

Gary Public Schools

  • Alderman, L. R. “Two Groups Plan,” National Education Association Addresses and Proceedings 55 (1917):801.

  • Bachman, Frank P. and Bowman, Ralph. The Gary Public Schools: Coasts, School Year, 1915-1916. New York: General Education Board, 1918.

  • Ban, J. R. “Semi-alternative Program as an Avenue of Change, Horace Mann School,” School and Community 61 (January, 1975):12.

  • Bell, A. H. The Work- Study- Play Program. Columbus, 1932.

  • Bethea, Dennis A. Colored Groups in Gary School System,” The Crisis 38 (August, 1931):268.

  • Booner, M.G. “School Riots and the Gary System,” Outlook 117 (October 31, 1917):334.

  • Bourne, Randolph. The Gary Schools. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1916.

  • Bourne, Randolph. The Gary Schools: Epilogue. By Abraham Flexner and Frank P. Bachman. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1970.

  • Burris, W. P. Public School System of Gary, Indiana. U.S. Education Bureau Bulletin 18. Washington, D.C., 1914.

  • Burton, C.P. “Education as a By-product,” Technical World 21 (July, 1914):724.

  • Caldwell, Otis W. The Gary Public Schools: Science Teaching. New York: General Education Board, 1919.

  • Cohen, Ronald D. “Urban Schooling in Twentieth Century America,” Urban Education 8 (January, 1974):423.

  • Cohen, Ronald D. and Mohl, Raymond A. The Paradox of Progressive Education: The Gary Plan and Urban Schooling. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1979.

  • Cools, G. Victor. “Gary’s High-School Strike,” School and Society 26 (November 26, 1927):685.

  • Coons, Charles S. “Teaching of science to Children in the Gary Public Schools,” School and Society 1 (April 17, 1915):546.

  • Courtis, Stewart A. The Gary Public Schools: Measurement of Classroom Products. New York: General Education Board, 1919.

  • “Democratic School,” New Republic 4 (October 23, 1915):297.

  • “Divine Spark of Common Sense at Gary, Indiana” Survey 35 (October 23, 1915):88.

  • Dewey, John and Evelyn. Schools of To-morrow. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1915.

  • “Efficient Industrial Education at Gary,” Literary Digest 48 (March 21, 1914):613.

  • Elwell, Richard. “The Gary Plan Revisited,” American Education 12, no. 6 (July, 1976):16.

  • Gary Board of Education. Auditorium and its Administration. Gary, 1927.

  • Gary Board of Education. Gary Public Evening Schools, Annual Bulletin. Gary, 1927-.

  • Gary Board of Education. Information Concerning the Work- Study- Play Schools… to Applicants for Teaching Positions. Gary, 1926-28.

  • Gary Board of Education. Public Evening Schools Courses of Study. Gary, 1915.

  • Gary Board of Education. Notes to Visitors. Gary, 1911.

  • Gary Board of Education. Regulation of Visitors. Gary, 1911.

  • Gary Human Relations Commission. An Analysis of Segregation in the Gary Public Schools. Gary, 1967.

  • “Gary School Survey,” Elementary School Journal 19 (February, 1919):330, 473.

  • Hammer, Lee. The Gary Public Schools: Physical Training and Play. New York: General Education Board, 1919.

  • Hersh, Blanche. School Crisis in Gary, 1927. Unpublished paper, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, 1969.

  • Leith, H. “Personal Economic Background of High School Seniors,” Journal of Business Education 17 (January, 1942):17.

  • Lutz, C. D. “Long Range and Annual Budgeting in Gary,” American School Board Journal 120 (June, 1950):22.

  • Mohl, Raymond A. “Alice Barrows: Crusader for the Platoon School, 1920-40; Gary Plan.” Elementary School Journal 77 (May, 1977):350.

  • “Negro Students in a Gary High School,” School and Society 26 (October 8, 1927): 453.

  • “Performance Contracting: Why the Gary School Board Bought It,” American School Board Journal 158 (January, 1971):19.

  • Public Administration Service. The Public School System of Gary, Indiana. Chicago, 1955.

  • Purdue Survey Committee. Final Report for the Gary Board of Education to the President and Board of Trustees of Purdue University. West Lafayette, 1943.

  • “Reports on Institutional Experiments, 1936, in the Gary Junior College,” North Central Association Quarterly 11 (October, 1936):173.

  • Richards, Charles R. The Gary Public Schools, Industrial Work. New York: General Education Board, 1918.

  • Rogers, V.M. “Investigation in Gay,” National Education Journal 76 (May, 1957):339.

  • Roser, M.C. “Administrative Techniques in Establishing School Boundary Lines,” American School Board Journal 120 (May, 1950):23.

  • Rossman, John G. “Salary Schedules and Return Upon Investment,” American School Board Journal 77 (December, 1928):37.

  • Russell, George L. “Financial Support for the Gary Public Schools… 1930-1940.” Masters’ thesis, Indiana State Teachers’ College, 1941.

  • Sachs, Julius. “Gary Schools,” Columbia University Quarterly 21 (April, 1919):109.

  • Shaffer, Velma, comp. The Gary System: A Bibliography, 1916-1935, Supplement to McMillen’s, the Gary System: A Bibliography. New York: School of Library Service, Columbia University, 1935.

  • Strayer, George D. and Bachman, Frank P. The Gary Public Schools: Organization and Administration. New York: General Education Board, 1918.

  • Tipton, James. Community in Crisis: The Elimination of Segregation From a Public School System. New York: Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1953.

  • White, Eva W. The Gary Public Schools: Household Arts. New York: General Education Board, 1918.

  • Wilson, John A. Banneker: A Case Study of Educational Change. Homewood, IL: ETC Publications, 1973.

  • Winship, A.E. “Barricaded Against Gary,” Journal of Education 79 (June 25, 1914):719.

  • “Wirt Public Schools,” Public Health Journal 13 (August, 1922):341.

  • Wirt, William A. “The Great Lockout in America’s Citizenship Plants.” Platoon School 2 (1937):1.

  • Wirt, William A. “Multiple Use of child Welfare Agencies,” National Education Addresses and Proceedings 55 (1917):734.

  • Wirt, William A. “Utilization of School Plant,” National Conference of Charities and Correction Proceedings 39 (1912):58.

  • Wolff, Max. “Segregation in the Schools of Gary, Indiana,” Journal of Educational Sociology 36 (February, 1963)


Other Public Schools


  • Covault, Richard, comp. Historical Sketch of Hammond High School. Hammond, 1939.

  • Department of Education, University of Chicago, for Hammond Chamber of Commerce and Board of School Trustees. Building Survey Hammond Public Schools, Hammond, Indiana. Chicago, 1944.

  • East Chicago Public Schools. School Building and Site Survey. East Chicago, 1956.

  • Fehrman, Richard J. Religious and Ethnic Influences on the St. John Township Schools (1853-1910). W. Lafayette: Purdue University, 1971.

  • Hammond Public Schools. Our Community- Its Heritage. Hammond, 1976.

  • Indiana State University, Bureau of School Administrative Services, for Board of School Trustees. A Cooperative Study of the Hanover Community School Corporation, Cedar Lake, Indiana. Terre Haute: Indiana State University, 1971.

  • Indiana State University, Bureau of School Administrative Services, for Board of School Trustees. A Cooperative Study of the Lake Central School Corporation, St. John, Indiana. Terre Haute: Indiana State University, 1967.

  • Indiana University, Division of Research and Field Services, for Highland Board of School Trustees. A Cooperative Study of the Highland Public Schools, Highland, Indiana. School Survey Series no. 35. Bloomington, 1955.

  • Leevis, Nickolaus; Mort, Paul R.; and Garver, Harlie. Schools for the Hobart Community; A Postwar Building Program to Serve School and Community. Hobart, 1944.

  • Leonard, R. J., for Hammond Board of Education. Some Facts Concerning the People, Industries and Schools of Hammond, and a Suggested Program for… Elementary, Industrial, Prevocational, and Vocational Education. Hammond: Board of Education, 1915.

  • McNabney, William F. Commemorative Chronicle: A Brief History of Hammond High School. Hammond: School City of Hammond, 1984.

  • Munster Public Schools. Art in Action. Munster, 1975.

  • Protsman,, Roscoe E. The District Schools of St. John Township, Lake County, Indiana. Schererville, 1970.

Higher Education

  • Albers, James W. From Centennial to Golden Anniversary: The History of Valparaiso University from 1959-1975. Valparaiso: Valparaiso University, 1976.

  • Bowden, Katherine G. “A Short History of Valparaiso University.” Typescript. Valparaiso University Archives.

  • Clark, Thomas D. Indiana University, Midwestern Pioneer. 4 vols. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1970, 1973, 1977.

  • Dickmeyer, William C. “History of Valparaiso University.” Typescript. Valparaiso University Archives.

  • Empey, Philip H., Jr. The Economic Impact of Purdue University Calumet Campus Upon the Economy of Lake County, Indiana. Hammond: Purdue University Calumet, 1978.

  • “The Klan Backs a College,” Literary Digest 78 (September 15, 1923):42.

  • Myer, Burton D. History of Indiana University, Vol. II, The Bryan Administration. Bloomington: Indiana University, 1952.

  • Northern Indiana Normal School and Business Institute Catalogue. Valparaiso, 1877-78.

  • Purdue Calumet Development Foundation. Annual Report, 1956-1965.

  • Purdue Calumet Development Foundation “Conception, Organization, Objectives.” East Chicago, 1957.

  • Stimpson, George W. The Story of Valparaiso University: Including an Account of the Recent Turbulence. Chicago: W.B. Conkey Co., Printer, 1921.