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Sarah Carr

Sarah Carr has reported and edited for Hechinger since 2011, currently with a focus on early childhood education. She also directs the Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship at Columbia Journalism School and is a fellow at New America. She has written for The Washington Post, The Atlantic and Slate, winning several national awards. Carr served as the Ottaway Visiting Professor of Journalism at SUNY New Paltz, and for five years she led Columbia Journalism School’s Teacher Project fellowship, spearheading collaborations with more than 30 editorial partners. Carr also served as editor of an investigative education reporting team at the Boston Globe called The Great Divide. She is the author of “Hope Against Hope” (Bloomsbury, 2013), about New Orleans schools after Hurricane Katrina.

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Posted inMiddle School

As a district re-opens, one middle schooler returned to school and another remained home

Avatar photo by Sarah Carr May 18, 2021May 18, 2021
Posted inNews

How New Orleans leaders built a segregated city

Avatar photo by Sarah Carr March 14, 2019October 21, 2020
A group of 2- and 3-year-olds enjoy a lunch of fish, ratatouille, fresh bread and fruit at a preschool program in Lormont, a suburb of Bordeaux.
Posted inElementary to High School

What France can teach us about how to to educate the most vulnerable 2-year-olds

Avatar photo by Sarah Carr November 30, 2017May 20, 2020
Eighteen-year-old Wellington Coleman studies at Southern University of New Orleans through a special program, and hopes someday to become a software engineer.
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News

New policies close off opportunities to college applicants in need of extra help

Avatar photo by Sarah Carr July 10, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inNews

A new way to evaluate teachers: Let them set their own standards

Avatar photo by Sarah Carr January 22, 2015March 30, 2020
Erin Lockley, 12th grade student at Cohen High School. (Photo: © William Widmer 2014)
Posted inElementary to High School, New Orleans, News, The South

The painful backlash against ‘no-excuses’ school discipline

Avatar photo by Sarah Carr November 17, 2014October 21, 2020
Posted inCommon Core, Elementary to High School, New Orleans, News, The South

Common Core math standards add up to big money for education companies

Avatar photo by Sarah Carr September 15, 2014October 21, 2020
Elizabeth Marcell, executive director of intervention services at New Orleans' ReNEW Schools, works with a student in the charter network's therapeutic program. (Photo: Sarah Carr)
Posted inElementary to High School, New Orleans, News, The South

In New Orleans, a case study in how school, health care decentralization affect neediest children

Avatar photo by Sarah Carr July 3, 2014October 21, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School, New Orleans, News, The South

What will New Orleans’ move to an all-charter school district mean for the city’s schoolchildren?

Avatar photo by Sarah Carr June 2, 2014October 21, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School, News, Student Voices, Student Voices: New Orleans perspectives

In their own words

Avatar photo by Sarah Carr May 22, 2014March 30, 2020

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