1233 Anya Kamanetz + The Good Stuff , News & Clips
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Anya Kamenetz speaks, writes, and thinks about generational justice; about thriving, and raising thriving kids, on a changing planet. Her newsletter on these topics is The Golden Hour. She covered education for many years including for NPR, where she co-created the podcast Life Kit: Parenting. Her newest book is The Stolen Year: How Covid Changed Children’s Lives, And Where We Go Now. Kamenetz is currently an advisor to the Aspen Institute and the Climate Mental Health Network, working on new initiatives at the intersection of children and climate change.
Anya Kamenetz speaks, writes, and thinks about generational justice; about thriving, and raising thriving kids, on a changing planet. Her newsletter on these topics is The Golden Hour. She covered education as a journalist for many years including for NPR, where she also co-created the podcast Life Kit:Parenting in partnership with Sesame Workshop. Kamenetz is currently an advisor to the Aspen Institute and the Climate Mental Health Network on new initiatives at the intersection of children and climate change.
She’s the author of several acclaimed nonfiction books: Generation Debt (Riverhead, 2006); DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education (Chelsea Green, 2010) ; The Test: Why Our Schools Are Obsessed With Standardized Testing, But You Don’t Have To Be (Public Affairs, 2016); The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life (Public Affairs, 2018), and The Stolen Year: How Covid Changed Children’s Lives, And Where We Go Now (Public Affairs, 2022).
Kamenetz was named a 2010 Game Changer in Education by the Huffington Post, received 2009, 2010, and 2015 National Awards for Education Reporting from the Education Writers Association, won an Edward R. Murrow Award for innovation in 2017 along with the rest of the NPR Ed team, and the 2022 AERA Excellence in Media Reporting on Education Research Award. She’s been a New America fellow, a staff writer for Fast Company Magazine and a columnist for the Village Voice. She’s contributed to The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine and Slate, and been featured in documentaries shown on PBS, CNN, HBO and Vice. She frequently speaks on topics related to children, parenting, learning, technology, and climate to audiences including at Google, Apple, and Sesame, Aspen Ideas, SXSW, TEDx, Yale, MIT and Stanford.
Kamenetz grew up in Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana, in a family of writers and mystics, and graduated from Yale University. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is the Tuesday show, and I've got a good one for you today. |
| 0:06.0 | Joining me as my special guest, it's Anya Kamenetz. |
| 0:10.1 | She is a writer and author, a journalist. |
| 0:12.5 | She covered education for NPR. |
| 0:15.5 | She's written five books, super smart, one of the smartest people I know. |
| 0:19.0 | I have an awesome conversation with her about the way forward, how to deal with our kids, and so much more. She's always so great. And that conversation begins at about 34 minutes in after the good stuff and the news. But first, thank you very much to everybody who joined me at the Monday Night Hangout. I'm hosting hangouts for paid subscribers on Monday and Thursday. |
| 0:39.2 | I'll be hosting a live show for the first time and a long time on Friday. |
| 0:44.8 | I hope to see you there. |
| 0:45.8 | You can hopefully be able to call in. |
| 0:47.8 | I'll have some special guests Friday at noon. |
| 0:50.4 | Join me there. |
| 0:51.4 | That's the big announcement for this week. |
| 1:11.3 | Also continuing this new format, I open with the good stuff. Then I get to the news and clips, and then, of course, my guest. That's what I've been doing this week. And I have gotten some great feedback. Thank you to everybody who has reached out so many emails and messages. |
| 1:15.9 | My friend Deborah Spiner in New Jersey emailed me saying I wanted to drop a note to let you know that I spent the last few days driving back and forth to the Bronx from New Jersey. |
| 1:19.4 | And I caught up on the last few episodes of your podcast that you've dropped since the elections. |
| 1:23.1 | I love how you selected your interviewees so mindfully. |
| 1:26.7 | Each episode provided your audience with some comfort for our pain and losing the elections, |
| 1:31.5 | which we are also emotionally invested in. |
| 1:33.8 | It feels like such a letdown. |
| 1:34.9 | We're all feeling some level of despondency. |
| 1:37.5 | Listening to these episodes specifically made me feel not alone and not as scared as your guest helped us process the results, the consequences, |
| 1:46.1 | and gave us the hope we need to continue our collective good trouble. |
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