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.
-
Black girls are suspended from school at six times the rate of white girls. In a new book, Pushout, author Monique Morris tells their stories. -
Recent advances — such as the victory over a human Go champion — raise important questions about AI's potential role in teaching and learning. -
Schools are moving to high-stakes testing of social and emotional skills. Some experts say it's too soon. -
Algebra, trigonometry and calculus keep millions of people from graduating. And they're unnecessary, argues author and professor Andrew Hacker. -
No alarm. No school bus. No problem. Thanks to a school's laptop program, everyone takes a virtual lesson. -
At least six states are switching the rules so students can get diplomas retroactively. -
A Harvard faculty member argues in his new book that averages tell us nothing useful about individuals. That has big implications for schools. -
Virtual reality and other innovations are helping international students and colleges tell whether they're a good fit. -
Athletic scholarships, campus visits and other factors work against high-achieving low-income students, a new report says. -
Does using digital media require moderation, like eating some tasty foods, or abstinence, like cigarettes? An expert weighs in.
