Anya Kamenetz
| Anya Kamenetz | |
|---|---|
| Born |
September 15, 1980 Baltimore |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Benjamin Franklin High School |
| Alma mater | Yale College |
| Notable works | Generation Debt, DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education, The Test: Why Our Schools are Obsessed with Standardized Testing–But You Don’t Have to Be |
| Relatives | Rodger Kamenetz, Moira Crone |
Anya Kamenetz (born September 15, 1980, in Baltimore) is an American writer living in Brooklyn, New York City. She is lead education blogger at NPR, a former staff writer for Fast Company magazine, a columnist for Tribune Media Services, and the author of several books about education.
During 2005, she wrote a column for The Village Voice called "Generation Debt: The New Economics of Being Young". Her first book, Generation Debt, was published by Riverhead Books in February 2006. Her writing has also appeared in New York Magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Salon, Slate magazine, The Nation, The Forward newspaper, and more.
In 2009, Kamenetz wrote a column called "How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education" and, in 2010, a book on the subject entitled DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education. In 2010, she was named a Game Changer in Education by the Huffington Post.
As a Fellow at the New America Foundation, Kamenetz wrote a book, The Test: Why Our Schools are Obsessed with Standardized Testing–But You Don’t Have to Be, which was released in January 2015.
She was featured in the documentaries Generation Next (2006), Default: The Student Loan Documentary (2011), both shown on PBS, and Ivory Tower, which premiered at Sundance in 2014 and was shown on CNN.
Her next book is on parenting in the digital age. It will be released in early 2018.
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