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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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." -
Many young people across the country are finding this moment extremely scary. Parents, caregivers and teachers can help them cope. -
Most schooling has been offered online this semester. Teachers are working hard to improve that experience, but many students are still left behind. -
For-profit virtual charter schools have been dogged by complaints of low student performance, fraud and waste. Still, many are seeing a pandemic-induced enrollment surge. -
Mayor Bill de Blasio had said he would close schools at a testing positivity rate of 3%, and stuck to his position. Not everyone is happy. -
The president-elect called for immediate action to help borrowers who are "having to make choices between paying their student loan and paying the rent." -
Amid a new wave of coronavirus restrictions, France, the U.K. and Germany are keeping schools open. The U.S. has taken a different approach. -
As the new president sets his priorities, will having an educator as first lady help schools and colleges get what they hope for? -
A new report finds the return to education has been much slower in the world's poorer countries.
