Sequoia Carrillo
Sequoia Carrillo is an assistant editor for NPR's Education Team. Along with writing, producing, and reporting for the team, she manages the Student Podcast Challenge.
Prior to covering education at NPR, she started as an intern on the How I Built This team.
Sequoia holds a bachelor's degree in history and media studies from the University of Virginia. She is currently working towards her master's in journalism from Georgetown University.
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The sweeping new proposals, if enacted, could ease student loan debt for millions of borrowers.
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Students have waited months to find out how much financial aid they will receive for school. Delays and errors by the Department of Education mean they'll be waiting a while longer.
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Colleges are just beginning to receive long-overdue FAFSA data. Meanwhile, students who've been accepted to college still face weeks before they receive aid offers.
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Following the resignation of the University of Pennsylvania's president after controversial testimony on Captiol Hill last week, critics continue to attack the presidents of Harvard and MIT.
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Four days after disastrous testimony on Capitol Hill, University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill resigns.
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NPR's history podcast Throughline looks at how the Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota avoided the fate of most U.S. reservations. The Red Lake Band of Chippewa still owns all the reservation land.
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From second grade to seniors in high school, students are getting bombarded with news. Teachers are working to give them the tools to process it.
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Narcan is the best option schools have to save students from an overdose, but it's only readily available in a handful of the nation's districts.
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A heat wave along the East Coast and in the Midwest leads to closings, shorter school days.
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Amid sweltering heat waves, classes have resumed in many districts around the country that have outdated heating and cooling systems — or no air conditioning at all.