PHI DELTA KAPPAN • December 2016/January 2017 • Vol. 98, No. 4
FIXING SCHOOL TIME
8 Later start time for teens improves grades, mood, and safety — Kyla L. Wahlstrom
15 Summer learning that sticks — Daniel Browne
21 4 steps for redesigning time for student and teacher learning — Lori Nazareno
26 More time for learning — Alex Magaña, Michelle Saab, and Valerie Svoboda
31 Time for teacher learning, planning critical for school reform — Eileen G. Merritt
MORE FEATURES
37 Detracked — And going strong — Peter Bavis
43 Strategic accountability is key to making PLCs effective — Lois Brown Easton
55 It’s instruction over place not the other way around! — James M. Kauffman and Jeanmarie Badar
60 Buyer — Be informed — Brandi Noll
66 Testing: For better and worse — Robert J. Sternberg
DEPARTMENTS
4 THE EDITOR’S PAGE: Time to learn, time to teach — Joan Richardson
6 HIGHLIGHTED & UNDERLINED: A notebook of short but worthy items
72 LEADERSHIP: Content is king — Joshua P. Starr
74 WASHINGTON VIEW: One step forward, two steps back in Maryland — Maria Ferguson
76 UNDER THE LAW: Student online speech rights on and off campus — Julie Underwood
79 PDK CONNECTION: Organizational news about PDK International
80 BACKTALK: Equity and school time — James H. Lytle