# Anya Kamenetz

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Waterline | 5

Ashley Jochim is an education researcher with a PhD, four kids, and two decades of experience studying what makes schools work. None of that prepared her for the day her daughter Evelyn was diagnosed with ADHD and a learning disability — or for how little Ashley actually knew about special educatio…

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Beth Gellman-Beer spent her whole career fighting for kids with disabilities — first as a student written off as “lazy,” then as a federal civil rights attorney who found her dream job protecting students like her younger self. But on one ordinary night, a phone call changed everything: Her entire …

How the Education System Pits Parents Against Each Other [First Half]

Anya Kamenetz—journalist, author, and host of the podcast ZERO REJECT—comes on the show to discuss New York City’s pubic school system and how Carter cases (where families sue the DOE for private school tuition for their kids with disabilities) are demonstrative of the problems in public education …

He has ADHD. She doesn’t. What actually helps this real couple communicate

Your partner has rehearsed this conversation 10 times. You’re walking in at one. No wonder it goes sideways. Dani Burford doesn’t have ADHD, but her husband, Sean, does, along with OCD tendencies. Dani, who works in marketing at Understood.org, joins Cate for a casual, practical conversation about …

He has ADHD. She doesn’t. What actually helps this real couple communicate | Sorry, I Missed This

Your partner has rehearsed this conversation 10 times. You’re walking in at one. No wonder it goes sideways. Dani Burford doesn’t have ADHD, but her husband, Sean, does, along with OCD tendencies. Dani, who works in marketing at Understood.org, joins Cate for a casual, practical conversation about …

Introducing “Zero Reject: The Uncertain Future of Special Education”

We’re dropping into your feed a week early to announce a new investigative podcast from Understood.org. It’s called Zero Reject: The Uncertain Future of Special Education. This is episode 1. If you like it, follow Zero Reject wherever you get your podcasts. Beth Gellman-Beer spent her whole career …

Is ADHD a spectrum? What that does (and doesn’t) mean

“Isn’t everyone a little ADHD?” If you have ADHD, you’ve heard it. Maybe you’ve felt the flash of rage, and the sadness underneath, because the question can make it sound like your life-altering brain difference is being reduced to a personality quirk. But there’s a more thoughtful version that cou…

E75 | Accountability Is Completion — and the Group That Used Her Work to Avoid It

Cara spent more than 30 hours in mediation with leaders of the International School of Temple Arts, trying to help the neo-tantra organization face the harm survivors had reported. The result was a joint statement, and then, she says, the organization cut her group off and kept using that statement…

Keeping the lights on | 6

After tracing what’s broken in special education — and why — Anya Kamenetz closes the series by asking what’s actually working. She reconnects with Beth Gellman-Beer, the former federal civil rights attorney from episode one, now a year into life after the Department of Education. Beth gives her ho…

Reality TV, undiagnosed ADHD, and rejection sensitivity: Dance Moms’ Christi Lukasiak

For decades, Christi Lukasiak was handed diagnoses that didn’t fit: Depression. Anxiety. Borderline personality. Bipolar. She was navigating with the wrong map. Then a new therapist asked one question, and everything clicked. It was ADHD. Christi is a TV personality, creator, and host of Back to th…