Dwight Hare, Ph.D.
Coordinator, Research Fellows

Dwight Hare is coordinator of research fellows at the National Center for Rural Early Childhood Learning Initiatives and a professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction of the College of Education at Mississippi State University.

Dr. Hare is the author of numerous articles and presentations has served as researcher or evaluator on several externally funded projects. Most recently, he worked with a team of researchers from the Southeast Center for Teaching Quality on a study of the impact of high-stakes testing on teachers professional development in six Southern states.

Hare is proud to have his students working in many university educational programs, including Mississippi State University, the University of Mississippi, Indiana State University, Arkansas State University, Delta State University, Mississippi State University at Meridian, the Mississippi University for Women, Jackson State University, Jacksonville State University, Purdue University Calumet, the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith, Idaho State University, and the University of Tennessee at Martin.

Dr. Hare holds a Bachelor of Arts in Early Childhood Education and a Doctor of Philosophy in Education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A member of the faculty of Mississippi State University since 1990, he chairs the MSU Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects and the MSU Interdisciplinary Studies Committee.

Updated 12/01/2006