Anya Kamenetz
Anya Kamenetz is an education correspondent at NPR. She joined NPR in 2014, working as part of a new initiative to coordinate on-air and online coverage of learning. Since then the NPR Ed team has won a 2017 Edward R. Murrow Award for Innovation, and a 2015 National Award for Education Reporting for the multimedia national collaboration, .
Kamenetz is the author of several books. Her latest is The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life (PublicAffairs, 2018). Her previous books touched on student loans, innovations to address cost, quality, and access in higher education, and issues of assessment and excellence: Generation Debt; DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education, and The Test.
Kamenetz covered technology, innovation, sustainability, and social entrepreneurship for five years as a staff writer for Fast Company magazine. She's contributed to The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine and Slate, and appeared in documentaries shown on PBS and CNN.
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We've talked with hundreds of people since the pandemic shut down schools and colleges a year ago. We checked back back in with three of them about how their lives have changed. -
The monthly checks would mark a big shift in the federal government's approach to child poverty. One study estimates they could cut the number of poor children by half. -
Four out of 5 parents told us they support targeted interventions by schools that would help students recover academic, social and emotional skills. -
An innovative education startup is offering culturally responsive learning to Black students across the country. -
Educators, parents and students say there's a chance to take stock and reinvent education. -
The federal government has yet to approve plans in most states for giving out money that was authorized in October. -
Designated as frontline essential workers, some educators see a path out of "the lion's den." -
Most schooling has been offered online this semester. Teachers are working hard to improve that experience, but many students are still left behind. -
Many parents appear to be keeping their children out of public school, especially from kindergarten. The declines could mean less state funding for school districts. -
Educators around the U.S. told us they're facing heartbreaking choices between the needs of their students and the needs of their own children.
