The Audio Book Club on Behind the Beautiful Forevers

This month, Slate Book Review editor Dan Kois, DoubleX editor Hanna Rosin, and Slate senior editor Emily Bazelon dig into Katherine Boo’s National Book Award-winning Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity. Is it really the best book of 2012? How does Boo get the stories she gets? Why do we trust her storytelling even in circumstances where another journalist’s claims might make us pause? Is it OK to call her “Kate”?

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IF... Podcast: Are U.S. Schools Really Factories?

The Urban Teacher Academy’s Dr. Julie Sweetland, alternative high school guidance counselor Derek Andrews and 3rd grade literacy teacher Darla Bunting find common ground with GOP candidate Rick Santorum and President Obama on education policy.


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