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 national survey of elementary school students asks about kindness as well as cruelty. -
Plus hurricane relief, science help for preschoolers and more, in our weekly education news roundup. -
In an emotional session of an emergency school board meeting, Dade County's Alberto Carvalho rejected a job offer announced just the day before. -
Students across the country pushed for stricter gun laws while President Trump and Secretary DeVos made news at the Conservative Political Action Conference. -
What's become of some very large sums of money directed (or not) towards education? Plus, DACA's impact on college-going, in our weekly roundup. -
Security experts say allowing students to have their phones with them during the school day is unlikely to make anyone safer. Maybe even the opposite. -
There is no one profile of a school shooter, but whole-school approaches to mental health and discipline have the potential to reduce violence. -
Behind-the-scenes marketing has made 'I Trust Parents' the mantra of for-profit, online charter schools in their battles with states and traditional charter schools. -
The psychiatric profession is still divided, but there are treatment programs, apps and a new public campaign to address media overuse. -
Are you strict, pushover or right down the middle? These nine questions could help you find the right balance when it comes to your kids and digital devices.
