Bookshelf: Kappan authors on their favorite reads

Abstract

In this regular column, Kappan authors recommend books and articles that have influenced them. Emily Hodge’s book is Dog Whistle Politics by Ian Haney López, which she says makes concrete and explicit how politicians can activate and exploit people’s fear for their own political gain. Jack Schneider’s choice is Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott. The book, he says, helped him understand the relationship between educational policy and practice in new ways.