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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A school shooting in Texas, plus a new government report on university-hired consultants and student borrowers, in our weekly roundup of education news. -
About 1 in 5 teens may have contemplated suicide. But new research suggests that schools as a whole can make a difference. -
As teachers walk out in a sixth state, signs of what's to come. -
Recent graduates Cristina Chase Lane and WinnieHope Mamboleo will be joining the profession just as teacher strikes sweep the nation. Instead of feeling demoralized, they say they feel galvanized. -
New research on measuring teacher prep programs and Starbucks' partnership with Arizona State University, all part of this week's education news roundup. -
The office of Students and Young Consumers at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will be folded into another office. Advocates are concerned about what that means for vulnerable borrowers. -
"Twice-exceptional," or 2E students, find that one of their sides sometimes masks the other. Psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman says there are a lot more of them than you might think. -
Plus an education-related settlement in the Philadelphia Starbucks controversy, in our weekly education roundup. -
Six in 10 teachers in our poll say they have worked a second job to pay the bills. -
Six in 10 teachers in our poll say they have worked a second job to pay the bills.
