Anya Kamenetz

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.,[1] a former staff writer for Fast Company magazine, and a columnist for Tribune Media Services.

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, The Nation, The Forward newspaper, and Vegetarian Times.

In 2009, Kamenetz wrote a column called "How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education"[2] 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.[3]

As a Fellow at New America Foundation, Kamenetz wrote a book, The Test: Why Our Schools are Obsessed with Standardized Testing–But You Don’t Have to Be,[4] which was released in January 2015.[5]

She is the daughter of Rodger Kamenetz, author of The Jew in the Lotus and other books on spirituality, and Moira Crone, fiction writer and author of Dream State and A Period of Confinement. Kamenetz grew up in Baton Rouge and New Orleans and graduated from Benjamin Franklin High School and Yale College in 2002.[6]

Reviews of Generation Debt

Generation Debt argues that student loans, credit card debt, the changing job market, and fiscal irresponsibility imperil the future economic prospects of the current generation, which is the first American generation not to do better financially than their parents.[7]

Some critics of Generation Debt have held that Kamenetz is not critical enough of her own perspective. A writer at Slate wrote, "It's not that the author misdiagnose[s] ills that affect our society. It's just that [she] lack[s] the perspective to add any great insight."[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Anya Kamenetz, personal finance columnist from The Savings Game". Tmsfeatures.com. Retrieved 2015-04-10.
  2. ↑ Anya Kamenetz (September 2009). "How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education" (139). Fast Company.
  3. ↑ "Arianna On Game Changers Anya Kamenetz, Jill Biden, Ted Olson & David Boies". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  4. ↑ "The Test: Why Our Schools are Obsessed with Standardized Testing–But You Don’t Have to Be: Anya Kamenetz: 9781610394413". amazon.com. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  5. ↑ ‘The Test’ by Anya Kamenetz, By DANA GOLDSTEIN, New York Times, Sunday Book Review, FEB. 4, 2015
  6. ↑ "Anya Kamenetz, Adam Berenzweig". The New York Times. 2006-10-22. Retrieved 2008-06-10.
  7. ↑ "Up Against It At 25". www.businessweek.com. Archived from the original on 30 April 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-10.
  8. ↑ Gross, Daniel. "Meet the it-sucks-to-be-me generation". Slate Magazine. Archived from the original on 15 June 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-10.

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