Phi Delta Kappan

Papers
(The median citation count of Phi Delta Kappan is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Policy Solutions: Reimagining assessment to be accountable to the student50
POLICY SOLUTIONS: Should school board elections be partisan?20
Students Speak Up: What people should know about schools19
Bookshelf: Kappan authors on their favorite reads16
Career Confidential: Teacher wants to motivate an apathetic student16
Poll Points: Public opinion on AI in schools16
Browsing: Further thoughts on this month’s theme15
Bookshelf: Kappan authors on their favorite reads15
PDK Connection: Organizational news about PDK International14
Reimagining American Education: Possible Futures13
Artistic License: Celebrating the talents of students and educators13
Backtalk: Teaching historical reasoning helps democracy thrive12
The Emotional Side of Learning a New Language12
Conflict-competent leadership11
Building a bridge to the future: A conversation with 2024 National Teacher of the Year Missy Testerman11
Key lessons from research about project-based teaching and learning10
Authentic student voice at the board table: A conversation with Jennifer Tran of the National Student Board Member Association10
Policy Solutions: Should superintendents be elected?10
On Leadership: A solid transition process helps new leaders chart a clear course forward10
Career Confidential: Staff members are rude to principal when they dislike his decisions9
How do we teach honesty in a dishonest world?8
Career Confidential: Veteran educator wonders, ‘Is it too late to start over?’8
Learning with Leaders: Education is the way: Tony Thurmond7
Motivating adolescents to read7
Bookshelf: Kappan authors on their favorite reads7
POLL POINTS: Broad support for workforce preparation7
Under The Law: Oklahoma!7
Accountability for long-term English learners7
Leading for mindfulness6
CAREER CONFIDENTIAL: How to encourage students to reflect and self-assess6
Public opinion and the teaching profession6
A vision for teachers’ emotional well-being6
Career confidential: Principal ticked off about TikTok challenges6
The magic of seeing yourself in books6
Measuring the Quality of the Teacher Workforce6
Taking stock of the science of reading: A conversation with Amanda Goodwin6
On Leadership: The voices we need to hear6
Career Confidential: Principal lets students get away with too much6
Building a bilingual teacher pathway5
Creating a safe community: The transition project5
Leading through crisis5
Putting rural communities at the center: A conversation with Sky Marietta5
Under the Law: School accountability: Lessons from the courts5
What middle schoolers need: Respect, accountability, and grace5
Backtalk: The harm in assessment-backward practices5
A Look Back: The ongoing special education debate in Kappan4
THE EDITOR’S NOTE: Math, mindset, and identity4
The importance of early literacy screening4
Taking a LEAP toward community-engaged leadership4
The Editor’s Note: Stepping outside the little boxes4
Empowering educators through team-based staffing models4
Stressed, tired, and yearning for support4
The Editor’s Note: No easy answers on safety4
Policy Solutions: What should we make of book bans?4
The Editor’s Note: The work of leaders4
Artistic License: Celebrating the talents of students and educators4
Reimagining American Education: Possible Futures4
Poll Points: Digging deeper into 2023 PDK Poll results4
The translanguaging school3
BACKTALK: Finding the sweet spot between curriculum fidelity and teacher agency3
The Editor’s Note: Chasing what matters3
Backtalk: Universities aren’t teaching the finance skills that K-12 leaders need3
Letting go of what doesn’t work in education: A conversation with Rick Ginsberg and Yong Zhao3
PDK CONNECTION: Thanks to our Educators Rising Champions3
The rural teacher shortage3
BACKTALK: Examining the concept of balance with instructional technology3
Career Confidential: Teacher distracted by ‘loud’ classroom next door3
The rise and stall of standards-based reform3
The State Playbook for Teacher Recruitment, Development, and Retention3
How educational intermediaries connect research and practice3
From segregation to strengths: A personal history of special education3
Resisting racism in school3
Career Confidential: Teacher wants to support students with test anxiety3
The promises and pitfalls of mandating racial equity in special education3
The Expectations and Aspirations of the Gen Z Education Student3
Designing teacher leadership for school improvement2
Under The Law: The Israel-Hamas war and U.S. classrooms2
Serving students with autism: Ensuring a place for applied behavior analysis2
Career Confidential: Teacher wants to motivate an apathetic student2
Structures for continuous improvement in principal preparation2
What do adults know about public education?2
Helping Next-Gen Educators Cross the Teaching Tightrope2
Under the Law: Is there a sports advantage in suburbia?2
Fostering student agency to transform education2
Putting evidence on CTE to work2
An AI wishlist from school leaders2
PDK Connection: Heritage News2
Learning with Leaders: Partnering for innovation and growth: Shaun Nelms2
Pdk Connection: Heritage News2
Creating a space for regulation and reflection2
Helping students be ‘happier and less worried’: A conversation with Elizabeth Englander2
Career Confidential: Teacher overheard students complain about his breath2
Local success in the standards era2
Using diagnostic assessments to improve data use2
Reframing trauma-informed practices2
PDK Connection: Organizational news about PDK International2
Washington View: Is education reform dead?2
The editor’s note: Time to invest in rural education2
Bookshelf: Kappan authors on their favorite reads2
Career Confidential: Parents blaming teacher for child’s misbehavior2
Career Confidential: Teacher frustrated district ‘undervalues’ the arts2
A Habits of Mind Culture Promotes Teacher Growth and Change2
PDK CONNECTION: From the CEO: Dreaming of Summer1
PDK Poll of Public’s Attitudes Toward Public Schools: Local public school ratings rise, even as the teaching profession loses ground1
Bookshelf: Kappan authors on their favorite reads1
Addressing inconsistencies in grading practices1
Keeping the Vietnamese language alive1
Professional development for the science of reading1
Poll Points: Who should influence what’s taught?1
Career Confidential: Teacher is losing patience with misbehaving students1
First Person: How I gamified my classroom1
Students Speak Up: How can schools help prepare students for careers?1
White educators working with Black parents: Resistance and trust1
Students Speak Up: Why come to school?1
A reading board for literacy justice1
Policy Solutions: The case for sensory civics education1
Engaging, motivating, and supporting students through feedback1
How Coaches Get In1
Five key questions educators ask about SEL1
Democratic representation and charter school governance: The case of KIPP1
Lessons from the early literacy tutoring landscape1
A new North Star1
Under The Law: The incredibly shrinking zone of teacher free speech1
Policy Solutions: It’s more than money: Supporting the Black school1
Clearing up misconceptions about project-based learning1
On Leadership: Getting the community on the path toward equity1
Making sense of reading’s forever wars1
Equity-centered school leaders1
BROWSING: Further thoughts on this month’s theme1
CAREER CONFIDENTIAL: Helping new teachers succeed1
First Person: Lessons in obedience — and resistance1
Curriculum, conflict, and critical race theory1
Poll Points: Public priorities for education1
Nurturing students through social interactions1
Students Speak Up: The changes students want1
Reimagining American Education: Possible Futures1
School safety for all students1
Students Speak Up: Supporting students who are learning English1
Learning with Leaders: Bringing the village together: John B. Gordon III1
Employing School Librarians: What Decision-Makers Tell Us1
Students Speak Up: How teachers can help middle schoolers1
Under The Law: Recent developments in the quest for racial diversity in K-12 schools1
Students Speak Up: Identifying good teachers1
The Editor’s Note: There’s opportunity in the middle1
Helping students to learn and grow1
Policy Solutions: Was the LeBron James school a false promise?1
On Leadership: Expectations and exceptions1
Backtalk: Harnessing the power of career changers to address teacher shortages1
Under The Law: The legal fight to preserve public education — and democracy1
Career Confidential: Teaching assistant won’t address unwanted behaviors1
How a university and a school district made change together1
PDK connection: Organizational news about PDK International1
Students Speak Up: How students are learning to lead1
BOOKSHELF: Kappan authors on their favorite reads Mindset: The New Psychology of SuccessBy DweckCarol S. (Ballantine Books, 2006)1
How to ensure high-quality instructional coaching at scale1
PDK Connection - Heritage News1
Under the Law: Virtually an education1
Career Confidential: Teacher wants to feel more motivated1
On Leadership: What should students learn?1
Gifted education advances school integration and equity1
Students Speak Up: What future educators want1
Thinking through research and the science of reading1
Evolving demands on teachers1
Poll Points: Education and the election1
‘It does happen here’1
First Person: Lamenting Earl — and other chronically absent students1
Under The Law: Banning books: Unlawful censorship, or within a school’s discretion?1
Industry-recognized certifications for college- and career-readiness1
Bookshelf: Kappan authors on their favorite reads1
First Person: The Happy Farm: Igniting the flame of knowledge in children1
Collaborative deliberation in the classroom1
Career Confidential: New principal has imposter syndrome0
Policy Solutions: Policy, not politics0
Backtalk: Let’s bring the art of deeper conversation into schools0
The Editor’s Note: The learning never ends0
We need to know more about CTE teachers0
New Teachers in Rural America0
Free books to close the reading achievement gap0
Under the Law: The kids have lost their cookies0
On Leadership: Why schools can’t “fail fast”0
How change-making teachers create bottom-up reforms0
A crisis of mattering: A conversation with Angela Maiers0
Under the Law: Public schools, religion, and equality after Carson v. Makin0
PDK Connection: Organizational news about PDK International0
Teach all Standards0
Loudest voices and unequal opportunities in the suburbs: A conversation with John B. Diamond0
Under The Law: Boys, men, and Title IX0
Policy Solutions: Policy questions for ChatGPT and artificial intelligence0
The network path to mastery learning0
Students Speak Up: What helped you learn last year?0
Talking back to the failing-schools narrative0
Backtalk: Academic jargon and the illusion of objectivity0
Academic Resilience and Education Governance in a Post-Pandemic World0
No more nice mentors0
Artistic License: Celebrating the talents of students and educators0
Under the Law: CTE: A checkered legal history0
Editor’s Note: Always room to grow0
Bookshelf: Kappan authors on their favorite reads0
Browsing: Further thoughts on this month’s theme0
Under the Law: Wanted: American educator0
Growth mindset & intellectual risk-taking: Disentangling conflated concepts0
Under the Law: School safety: A legal labyrinth0
How research-practice partnerships meet high-performing teachers’ needs0
Reimagining American Education: Possible Futures0
The path of a principal: A conversation with Sham Bevel0
The Editor’s Note: There’s opportunity in the middle0
Backtalk: What principals need to know to respond to a crisis0
Mini-observations 2.00
Under the Law: Title IX and the SCOTUS power grab0
Backtalk: Corrupting our youth?0
Everyone is a math person0
Reaching for consensus about preschool curricula0
Bookshelf: Kappan authors on their favorite reads0
The Editor’s Note: It’s time to listen to educators0
A design course for every student0
Browsing: Further thoughts on this month’s theme0
What a study of educator evaluation taught us about professional learning0
The growing movement to create full-service community schools: A conversation with Mavis Sanders and Claudia Galindo0
Making matters worse? COVID-19 and teacher recruitment0
Talking the technology talk0
Why teachers leave: It isn’t what you think0
PDK CONNECTION: Strategic planning and the future of PDK membership0
Bookshelf: Kappan authors on their favorite reads0
Needed: More school psychologists0
A caring climate that promotes belonging and engagement0
The Editor’s Note: Change for the change-averse0
What the ‘lost generation’ found: Film-based literacy0
BACKTALK: Balancing new technologies with proven instructional strategies0
Busting myths about professional judgment and subjectivity in assessment0
School accountability: Yesterday, today, and tomorrow0
Artistic License: Celebrating the talents of students and educators0
The Editor’s Note: A culture of healing0
Artistic License: Celebrating the talents of students and educators0
Under The Law: Affirmative retraction0
Students Speak Up: How can schools support student mental health?0
BROWSING: Further thoughts on this month’s theme0
Professional development tune-up0
Tackling negative thinking in the classroom0
The 57th Annual PDK Poll of the Public’s Attitudes Toward the Public Schools0
Kappan call for manuscripts, 2024-250
Placement matters: Is your reading intervention effective?0
Where is motivation in the science of reading?0
Good conflict0
Backtalk: Removing artificial barriers to licensure could ease the teacher shortage0
THE EDITOR’S NOTE: How we measure student progress0
Boys and the humanities: Making the twain meet0
Changing the school system improvement narrative0
Political battles in suburbia0
Browsing: Further thoughts on this month’s theme0
Students Speak Up: What keeps students motivated?0
0.73992300033569