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.
- Why Billions In Food Aid Hasn't Gotten To Needy Families
- Amid Surges, Teachers Line Up For Their Vaccines
- How To Talk To Kids About The Riots At The U.S. Capitol
- What U.S. Educators Think Of Getting A COVID-19 Vaccine
- Role Of Teachers Unions In The Push To Reopen Classrooms
- 5 Things We've Learned About Virtual School In 2020
- Virtual Charter Schools Are Booming, Despite A Checkered Reputation
- Amid Rising Coronavirus Cases, New York City Shuts Its Schools — Again
- New York City To Close Schools For In-Person Learning
- Biden Wants To Help Pay Some Student Loans, But There's Pressure To Go Further
- New York City Mayor Warns Schools Might Need To Close Next Week
- Lessons From Europe, Where Cases Are Rising But Schools Are Open