Anya Kamenetz is NPR's lead education blogger. She joined NPR in 2014, working as part of a new initiative to coordinate on-air and online coverage of learning.
Kamenetz is the author of several books about the future of education. Generation Debt(Riverhead, 2006), dealt with youth economics and politics; DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education (Chelsea Green, 2010), investigated innovations to address the crises in cost, access, and quality in higher education. Her forthcoming book, The Test (PublicAffairs, 2015), is about the past, present and future of testing in American schools.
Anya Kamenetz appears in the following:
A Look Inside a Polycule
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
Listeners share how they practice polyamory in their homes in 2024.
$1 million teacher prize goes to Sister Zeph. Her philosophy: 'Love is the language'
Friday, November 17, 2023
The Pakistani educator has won the largest annual prize for teachers from the Varkey Foundation. She says her teaching reflects her belief that "Love is the language that everybody can understand."
How 2020 Was A 'Stolen Year' For Students
Monday, August 29, 2022
Why 2020 was a stolen year for kids in the education system.
Why keeping girls in school is a good strategy to cope with climate change
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
Education for girls brings numerous benefits when it comes to addressing the climate crisis. Oh, and it works for boys, too!
The new book 'The Stolen Year' details how the pandemic disrupted children's lives
Monday, August 22, 2022
Extended school closings during the pandemic were a calamity for education. NPR's Anya Kamenetz writes about how COVID changed children's lives in her new book: The Stolen Year.
Russia is disappearing Ukrainian civilians. Their families want answers
Friday, June 24, 2022
Ukrainians who were held in Russia detail their detention, hoping to help find a teacher still missing. She is one of more than 200 civilians that U.N. human rights workers say Russia has disappeared.
An estimated two thirds of Ukrainian children have had to leave their homes
Sunday, May 29, 2022
On the outskirts of Lviv, 31 evacuated children from Eastern Ukraine are staying with just two caregivers, waiting week after week to return home.
Cómo hablar con los niños cuando las noticias dan miedo. Una guía bilingüe
Friday, May 27, 2022
Cuando ocurren tiroteos u otras tragedias, ¿cómo podemos hablar con los niños sobre lo que ha pasado? Tenemos consejos de expertos sobre cómo apoyar emocionalmente a los pequeñitos.
Experts say we can prevent school shootings. Here's what the research says
Thursday, May 26, 2022
School safety experts have coalesced around a handful of important measures communities and politicians can take to protect students.
To fend off food insecurity, Ukrainians look to their own backyards
Saturday, May 21, 2022
One in 3 Ukrainians are now food insecure, and the war could bring a food crisis all over the world. One thing that can help? Planting backyard gardens.
How a Ukrainian teacher helped students escape Russia's invasion, and still graduate
Saturday, May 21, 2022
As residents return to a liberated town near Kyiv, a teacher and her high school students recount what it took to survive the war.
Shelter.Lviv started on Instagram. It's now helped house 4,000 women and children
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
More than 14 million people have been displaced by the war in Ukraine. One shelter in the western city of Lviv has helped thousands of women and children. It now has only about 100 occupants left.
The war has worsened disparities for women in Ukraine
Sunday, May 15, 2022
Ukrainian feminists say their country came a long way, legally and culturally, in the past decade. Now advocates are trying to address sexual assault, economic hardship and other effects of the war.
The education culture war is raging. But for most parents, it's background noise
Friday, April 29, 2022
By wide margins, parents across the political spectrum are satisfied with how their children's schools teach about race, gender and history. That's according to a new national poll by NPR and Ipsos.
In an effort to make schools greener, the White House is offering billions of dollars
Friday, April 22, 2022
From solar panels to electric buses — the Biden Administration wants to make it easier for schools to tap more than $5.5 billion for climate-friendly upgrades.
Millions of Ukrainian children are still in school despite the war
Tuesday, April 05, 2022
Ukraine's focus on maintaining education during a war is in line with an emerging philosophy of disaster response.
This school wasn't built for the new climate reality. Yours may not be either
Monday, March 21, 2022
Hurricanes, wildfires and floods: Across the country, climate change is driving more severe weather, and many schools are not prepared.
Research from the American Psychological Association examined school violence
Thursday, March 17, 2022
A new survey of teachers, administrators, school social workers, school psychologists and school staff looks at incidents of violence and harassment toward school personnel.
Two years ago schools shut down around the world. These are the biggest impacts
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
In March 2020, we asked experts in school disruptions what the long-range effects might be as COVID-19 closed schools. How did those predictions pan out?
How schools and students have changed after 2 years of the pandemic
Sunday, March 13, 2022
It's been two years since schools shut down around the world, and now masks are coming off in a move back to normalcy. What effect has the pandemic had on students' learning and development?
