NEW ORLEANS—Before the 2020-21 school year, Christa Talbott, a 20-year veteran of New Orleans schools, had never considered leaving the profession she loved this early. This story also appeared in Time But then came a dispiriting spring trying to stay connected to her students while Covid-19’s first wave ravaged her hometown. George Floyd’s murder that […]
Author Archives: Sarah Carr
Sarah Carr edits stories and contributes reporting from New England. From 2011 to 2014, she oversaw Hechinger's coverage of New Orleans and Mississippi. Since then, she has led an investigative education reporting team at the Boston Globe and a reporting fellowship at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism called the Teacher Project, where she created the "What My Students Taught Me" podcast and spearheaded collaborations with more than 30 editorial partners. She has won more than a dozen awards. and her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Slate, TIME and NBC News. As a Spencer Fellow at Columbia University, Carr reported "Hope Against Hope" (Bloomsbury, 2013), about a student, a principal and a teacher in post-Katrina schools in New Orleans. Carr is a graduate of Williams College and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
