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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Tressie McMillan Cottom delves into the hopes and dreams of students outside the traditional college path. -
Georgia State says it has saved students $12 million in tuition because they're graduating faster, thanks to its new high-tech advising system. -
Students of color, low-income students, students with disabilities and English learners have all made gains. -
Sociologist Sara Goldrick-Rab's new book, Paying The Price, makes a fresh argument for free college. -
Seymour Papert was a pioneer in artificial intelligence and learning with technology. He died this week at 88. -
Artificial intelligence is getting stronger. Education must adapt. Here's a framework for separating out the things schools can and should teach that are uniquely human. -
Lasers and lava and mummies, oh my! Here are the exhibits that kids and their grown-ups love the mostfrom 10 of the nation's best children's museums . -
A test that can flag struggling readers before they're old enough to read and the power of music to help a child hear language. A literacy two-fer from the NPR Ed Team. -
Two developmental psychologists break down 21st century skills and give everyday tips for parents on how to instill them. -
Rocketship charter schools were supposed to revolutionize education, Silicon Valley-style, and enroll 1 million students. It hasn't worked out exactly that way.
