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, the Grad Rates project.
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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Ukraine's focus on maintaining education during a war is in line with an emerging philosophy of disaster response. -
Hurricanes, wildfires and floods: Across the country, climate change is driving more severe weather, and many schools are not prepared. -
In a big, new COVID-19-era survey, more than half of all educators and school personnel reported being victimized at work. -
In March 2020, we asked experts in school disruptions what the long-range effects might be as COVID-19 closed schools. How did those predictions pan out? -
A long-term study of a statewide preschool program tracked students through the sixth grade and found those who attended prekindergarten falling behind. -
A new poll from the nation's largest teachers union finds burnout is widespread, and more educators say they're thinking about leaving. -
While issues around masking remain polarized, there are growing calls for a post-omicron off-ramp for kids and masks. -
A health communications expert has developed a free online course to help people talk to those who are vaccine hesitant — and to fight misinformation with empathy. -
The people who take care of and educate children under 5 years old, who are too young to be vaccinated, are in a special kind of hell right now. -
Thousands of schools around the country have once again shifted to remote learning as COVID cases rise. It's taking a huge toll on children.
