Carter was an assistant professor in the department of sociology at Harvard University.[9] She served on the faculty at Stanford University from 2007 to 2016.[10] Carter also served as the Faculty Director of John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities,[11][12] and the Director of the Research Institute for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.[13] From 2016 to 2021, she was Dean of the Graduate School of Education and E.H. and Mary E. Pardee Professor at the University of California at Berkeley.[14] Before stepping down as the UC Berkeley GSE dean on July 31, 2021, she was awarded The Berkeley Citation.[15][16]
Books
Keepin’ It Real: School Success beyond Black and White (2005) Oxford University Press ISBN978-0-19532-523-2
Stubborn Roots: Race, Culture, and Inequality in U.S. & South African Schools (2012) Oxford University Press ISBN978-0-19989-965-4
Co-editor with Kevin G. Welner of Closing the Opportunity Gap: What America Must Do to Give Every Child an Even Chance (2013) Oxford University Press ISBN978-0-19998-299-8