Sarah Carr
- Trip:
- Fellows Fall 2006
- Affiliation during program:
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- Country:
- China
- Year:
- 2006
- Email:
- [email protected]
Sarah Carr covers schools in New Orleans. Previously she covered urban education issues at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for the past four years. She has won awards for a series on Milwaukee’s distinctive school voucher program, and for a portrait of a middle school being shut down in the Bronx. Over the past year, Carr explored the lives of pre-schoolers through a fellowship with the University of Maryland’s Journalism Fellowships in Child and Family Policy. Previously, she worked at The Chronicle of Higher Education in Washington D.C. for two years, where her coverage of online education took her to tribal colleges in rural Montana and the dotcoms of San Francisco. Carr has also written for The Charlotte Observer, The Berkshire Eagle, and the Cape Cod Times. She graduated from Williams College in 1999 with a B.A. in English, and from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in 2002.
Stories
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A Chinese Scholar Reckons With His Past
Shanghai January 27, 1971: "If we dedicate all our lives to the socialist revolution, letting the Communist Party and the People decide how we can make the most of our time, our ...
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Schooling migrants challenges Beijing
Beijing -- As the first cold weather hit Beijing in the fall, students and teachers at the Xingzhi Migrant Middle School packed their belongings, preparing to move after their ...
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Interactive Chat with Sarah Carr
Jan. 31, 2007 -- Sarah Carr spent five weeks reporting in China through a fellowship with the International Reporting Project at the Johns Hopkins University. Join her for a chat ...
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Always room for kindness in China
Jan. 26, 2007 -- When I went to China to visit and write about its schools, I expected to feel isolated. I didn't know much of the language and mistakenly assumed the schools and ...
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Lost in transition, Part II of II
BEIJING, China -- Part II of II In the small village Du Zhan is from, students study on stools inches above the dirt floor in a school with no adornments apart from the simple ...
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Education gap could threaten China’s stability
In the past six months, Beijing officials have ordered dozens of the private schools for migrant students to close. Some allege the decision is an attempt to clean up the city in ...
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School envy a 2-way street for China, U.S., Part I of II
ZHEJIANG PROVINCE, China -- Part I of II On a recent Friday afternoon in this southern Chinese province, the fourth-graders at Bowen International School were sitting up straight, ...
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Confucius reenters China’s schools to parry Western ways
GUANGDONG, China -- On a recent Friday afternoon in this southern Chinese province, the fourth-graders at Bowen International School were sitting up straight, their arms neatly ...
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