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.
- A Picture Book About Children At The Border Aims To Spark Family Conversations
- Why So Many Asian Americans Are Learning Remotely
- Asian Americans Most Likely To Be Learning Remotely
- New Data Reveals School Attendance Numbers During The Pandemic
- COVID-19 Lockdowns Have Been Hard On Youth Locked Up
- New Data Highlight Disparities In Students Learning In Person
- The CDC Says A Distance Of 3 Feet Between Students In A Classroom Setting Is Safe
- CDC Says Schools Can Now Space Students 3 Feet Apart, Rather Than 6
- The Latest Stimulus Package Includes $130 Billion For K-12 Education
- A Year Of School Like No Other: How A Teacher, A Student And A Parent Have Coped
- Checking Back With A Teacher, College Student and Mother After A Year At Home
- What The $300 A Month Child Benefit Could Mean For A Family On The Edge