#83 Education Chat: Anya Kamenetz - A Few Things - 45 Min

We discussed a few things including:1. Anya's career journey2. Her books: Generation Debt; DIY U; The Test; The Art of Screen Time3. Her current focus and book on the pandemic's affect4. What can we do to help our students, children5. Future trends and forecasts  Anya is an education correspondent for NPR. She’s been a senior staff writer for Fast Company magazine, contributed to the New York Times, Washington Post, New York Magazine, and has won multiple awards for her reporting on education, technology, and innovation.  In her new book, THE STOLEN YEAR Anya follows five diverse families from around the country from Spring 2020 to Spring 2021. She also dives deep into the political history that brought us to this point: Why we have no childcare system to speak of, how children became the group of Americans most likely to live in poverty, how we over police and separate families of color, and how we are content to let the unpaid and underpaid labor of women, especially women of color and immigrants, stand in for a void of public and collective concern for children.https://www.amazon DOT com/Stolen-Year-COVID-Changed-Childrens/dp/1541700988She is the author of four books: Generation Debt, DIY U, The Test, and The Art of Screen Time. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.