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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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. -
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. -
Amid sweltering heat waves, classes have resumed in many districts around the country that have outdated heating and cooling systems — or no air conditioning at all. -
Legacy admissions give an advantage to college applicants whose parents are alumni. Now, the Education Department has launched a civil rights investigation into Harvard's legacy admissions practices.
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Newly released data from national test scores in reading and math show a worrisome picture of student learning loss since the pandemic. -
School shootings, social media, beauty standards. 13-year-olds Erika Young and Norah Weiner delve into what middle school looks like today in their award-winning podcast. -
On the "Nation's Report Card," history scores were the lowest ever, and civics showed the first decline ever. -
The proposed changes to Title IX would still give schools some flexibility to ban transgender athletes depending on age and sport.
