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Anya Kamenetz
Education & Learning
Anya Kamenetz is an American journalist and author whose books examine higher education, standardized testing, family screen time, and the pandemic’s effects on children.
Biography
Anya Kamenetz is an American writer and senior advisor at the Aspen Institute. She has worked as an education correspondent for NPR, a senior writer for Fast Company, and a columnist for Tribune Media Services. Her work has also appeared in publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Washington Post.
Her first book, Generation Debt, followed her Village Voice column about the economics of being young. She subsequently wrote DIY U about changes in higher education and The Test about standardized testing. Her later books include The Art of Screen Time, which addresses families’ use of digital media, and The Stolen Year, about how Covid changed children’s lives. Kamenetz grew up in Baton Rouge and New Orleans and graduated from Yale College in 2002.
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Books by Anya Kamenetz
DIY U
Published in 2010, DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education examines how web-savvy “edupunks” are transforming American higher education.