Zero Reject Podcast
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When you’re trying to get your child the support they need at school, it can feel like the rules are constantly changing. And you’re left on your own, fighting to keep up.
In Zero Reject, award-winning journalist Anya Kamenetz investigates what’s happening in special education right now, what changing federal policies mean for families, and why the reality so often falls short of what students are legally promised. Between episodes — and after the series wraps — The Brief: Understood News keeps you in the know on everything shaping your family’s world, from shifts in education policy to new research on how kids learn.
Meet Anya
Anya Kamenetz is an award-winning journalist, author, and podcaster. She covered education for many years including for NPR, where she co-created the podcast “Life Kit: Parenting.” Her last book was “The Stolen Year: How COVID Changed Children’s Lives, and Where We Go Now.” Kamenetz is currently an advisor to the Climate Mental Health Network, working on new initiatives at the intersection of children, well-being, education, and climate change. Her next book, forthcoming from Bloomsbury in 2027, is about mental health and emotional resilience in a world of crisis. Her newsletter on these topics is “The Golden Hour.”
Photo credit: Will O’Hare