By the time her daughter turned 3, Ramona Santos Torres noticed something not quite right about the child’s speech. The toddler babbled, but nothing she said was intelligible. She rarely made eye contact with other people. Most babies, Santos Torres knew, start to utter some recognizable words before they reach the age of 2. “We […]
Author Archives: Sarah Carr
Sarah Carr has reported and edited for Hechinger for more than a decade. She is currently the Ottaway Visiting Professor of Journalism at SUNY New Paltz, teaching a course on covering inequality through the lens of youth. Previously, she led an investigative education reporting team at the Boston Globe and a reporting fellowship at Columbia’s Journalism School 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 Atlantic, The Washington Post, Slate, and others. Carr is the author of “Hope Against Hope” (Bloomsbury, 2013), about New Orleans schools after Hurricane Katrina.
