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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The movement for free tuition is growing. Time to look a gift horse in the mouth.
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An online bachelor's degree from Arizona State University for every barista. -
Science may be able to help schools combat the adverse effects of poverty. -
There are 8 million iPads in the classroom, but only a few thousand studies of their effectiveness. -
The president's order expanded the number of people whose student loan payments will be capped at 10 percent of their monthly incomes. But here's the fine print of his announcement. -
Two more states opt out. Politics are heating up. What's next?
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Three-fourths of parents say the Internet is forcing them to have "the talk" earlier.
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Architectural Digest, Wired, Vogue, Gourmet...why a magazine brand is getting into the education business. -
You've heard the complaints 鈥� now take a close look at a top-notch lesson plan.
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Measurable gains, yet a sense of loss.
