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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Several would-be freshmen in the class of 2021 lost their spots when they posted offensive material in a group Facebook chat. College officials and high school counselors are reacting to the news.
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So-called 'trauma-aware yoga' has mind and body benefits, says Georgetown research. -
Our weekly education news roundup: Trump administration unveils its 2018 budget proposal; DeVos talks school choice in Indianapolis, then faces a grilling from lawmakers. -
Florida's Gardiner Scholarship provides families of students who have some special needs to homeschool. A controversial bill would expand it. -
Florida has the most choices of any state for students with special needs: public, private, charter and home schooling. Still, some families can't find a good fit. -
President Trump says he fired FBI Director James Comey because "he was not doing a good job." And members of Congress are facing hostile crowds at town halls back in their districts.
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There is an outcry over the secretary of education's invitation to speak at the commencement of a private, Christian, historically black college in Florida.
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Some 32,000 students from the for-profit Kaplan University will join Purdue University in Indiana as part of a deal announced recently. -
Is trade school the ticket? Does the middle class have the worst debt woes? Listeners weigh in with burning student loan questions. -
A new survey shows widespread misconceptions and unfounded confidence about learning.
