When Ann Civitareale’s father passed away in 2009, she little fathomed that she would spend thousands of her inheritance on medical and educational testing for her two sons. This story also appeared in USA Today Yet the boys, 12 and 14, have struggled with multiple disabilities — including developmental and speech delays and profound challenges […]
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.
