Anya Kamenetz: 5 books
by Anya Kamenetz
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
Anya Kamenetz, a nationally recognized educational expert and author of Generation Debt and DIY U, has written the first-ever book sponsored by the Gates Foundation. The Edupunks' Guide is a first-of-its kind resource for the future of education: a comprehensive guide to learning online and charting...
Generation Debt
How Our Future Was Sold Out for Student Loans, Bad Jobs, No Benefits, and Tax Cu ts for Rich Geezers--And How to Fight Back
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2006
Generation Debt offers a truly gripping account of how young Americans are being ground down by low wages, high taxes, huge student loans, sky-high housing prices, not to mention the impending retirement of their baby boomer parents. Twenty-four-year-old Anya Kamenetz examines this issue from every...
The Art of Screen Time
How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Finally, an evidence-based, don't-panic guide to what to do about kids and screens.
Today's babies often make their debut on social media with the very first sonogram. They begin interacting with screens at around four months old. But is this good news or bad news? A wonderful opportunity to...
The Test
Why Our Schools are Obsessed with Standardized Testing–But You Don't Have to Be
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
"[The anti-testing] movement now has a guidebook. . . . Kamenetz shows how fundamentally American it would be to move toward a more holistic system." -New York Times Book Review
The Test is an essential and critically acclaimed book for any parent confounded by our national obsession with standardized...
DIY U
Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
The price of college tuition has increased more than any other major good or service for the last twenty years. Nine out of ten American high school seniors aspire to go to college, yet the United States has fallen from world leader to only the tenth most educated nation. Almost half of college students...