Zero Reject: An interview with Anya Kamenetz' new podcast

What happens to students’ rights when the institutions responsible for protecting them are being dismantled? What is the future of Special Education?

Journalist and former NPR education correspondent Anya Kamenetz joins Federico Waitoller to discuss Zero Reject: The Uncertain Future of Special Education, her investigative podcast from Understood.org. Through families’ stories, the series examines the distance between students’ legal rights and their everyday experiences—and what changing federal policies could mean for their education.

Federico and Anya explore the struggles behind the headlines, the role of journalism in making those struggles visible, and the difficult questions involved in imagining a better system.

Interviewing someone who asks questions for a living comes with a little pressure—and praise from a real journalist can go straight to a professor’s head. So, when Anya calls his questions “great questions," Federico immediately begins preparing for his NPR career.

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📖 Read Federico’s review of Outmatched

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