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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Harvard University, Rice University and Ohio State University are among the schools that have paused in-person classes. More than half a million students are affected by the cancellations. -
From online classes to warnings against xenophobia 鈥� and at least one "COVID-cat" 鈥� here's how schools are coping with the global health crisis. -
About 95% of American public schools have adopted some form of active shooter drills. But there's little proof they're effective 鈥� and there's growing concern they can traumatize children.
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"When we organize, we model the world we want to see," says teenager Xiye Bastida. Activist girls like Bastida have been especially visible in the fight against climate change. -
What's the link between smartphone use and teens' mental health? Experts disagree, with some arguing that the threat is overblown. -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been a clearinghouse for student borrower complaints. Its future is now in question. -
Rough-and-tumble play is a vital part of growing up ... and a really fun part of parenting.
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Teen courts and restorative justice are focused on cutting off the "school-to-prison pipeline." -
A private university elects to make a popular video game into an official varsity sport. Marketing ploy or sign of the future? -
College programs in prison have become extremely rare, but one alum's story shows how incarceration can truly be reformative.
