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Sarah Carr

Email: sec2002@columbia.edu

Sarah Carr has reported and edited for Hechinger since 2011. Currently, she covers early childhood education and manages the eight-newsroom Education Reporting Collaborative. 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. Past fellowship grants include the Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship, the O’Brien Fellowship for Public Service Journalism and the Russell Sage Visiting Journalist fellowship. Carr also led an investigative education reporting team at the Boston Globe, The Great Divide. She is the author of “Hope Against Hope” (Bloomsbury, 2013), about New Orleans schools after Hurricane Katrina.

sec2002@columbia.edu
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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
At the Kids of Excellence child care center in New Orleans the children learn largely through play. (Photo: Sarah Carr)
Posted inNew Orleans, News, The South

Accountability comes to the nursery

Avatar photo by Sarah Carr May 16, 2014October 21, 2020
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News

As study abroad becomes more crucial, few low-income students go

Avatar photo by Sarah Carr May 8, 2014April 8, 2021
Kameisha Smith, now a college student, was paddled three times between the ages of 10 and 14 in Holmes County public schools. (Photo: Jackie Mader)
Posted inElementary to High School, Mississippi, New Orleans, News, The South

Why are black students being paddled more in the public schools?

Avatar photo by Sarah Carr April 14, 2014October 21, 2020
Belle Chasse Primary School 4th graders Zachary Davis, left, Bella Gross, Julianna Shipp, Nickolas Farrington, Cody Gaubert, Dante Compton, Emily Hotard, and Matthew LaRoche listen to Mary Beth Newchurch as they look over a reading passage from their writer's binders to determine if the passage was written in First, Second, or Third Person point of view in Belle Chasse, La. Thursday, April 3, 2014. (Photo: MATTHEW HINTON/Advocate)
Posted inCommon Core, Elementary to High School, New Orleans, News, The South

Common Core has students writing — on just about every subject

Avatar photo by Sarah Carr April 7, 2014October 21, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School, New Orleans, News, The South

Out of the mouths of babes and trumpeters: Documentary triumphs in its child-centered perspective

Avatar photo by Sarah Carr February 27, 2014October 21, 2020
Posted inBlogs, Community Colleges, Higher Education

How to boost college graduation rates for black and Latino males

Avatar photo by Sarah Carr February 26, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inBlogs, Elementary to High School, New Orleans, The South

Will Louisiana’s students be ready for online testing?

Avatar photo by Sarah Carr February 20, 2014October 21, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School, New Orleans, News, The South

After countless setbacks, New Orleans teens make final effort to earn their high school diplomas

Avatar photo by Sarah Carr January 9, 2014October 21, 2020
Posted inBlogs, Elementary to High School, New Orleans, The South

How to stop the revolving door of teachers, principals at charter schools

Avatar photo by Sarah Carr December 16, 2013October 21, 2020

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