--- title: Jenny Anderson | TIME description: Anderson is a journalist, author and speaker. She spent 20 years covering finance including 10 at the New York Times before shifting her focus to learning. She is currently working on a book about the science of motivating teens (Crown, 2024). canonical: https://time.com/author/jenny-anderson/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/jenny-anderson/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Jenny Anderson ## Jenny Anderson Anderson is a journalist, author and speaker. She spent 20 years covering finance including 10 at the New York Times before shifting her focus to learning. She is currently working on a book about the science of motivating teens (Crown, 2024). ## Jenny Anderson *  Jan 18, 2024 ### [Way We Assess Kids at School Is Changing](https://time.com/6563787/american-students-skills-assessments-education/) There's a revolution coming in how America's measures what students are learning and how to skills-b... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Aug 28, 2023 ### [Americans Don't Know How Kids Are Doing](https://time.com/6308834/american-parents-how-their-kids-doing-in-school/) Too many American parents are shockingly in the dark about their child’s actual academic performance... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Aug 8, 2023 ### [Parents Are Almost as Depressed as Teens](https://time.com/6302430/teenagers-mental-health-parents/) If we want to help anxious and depressed teens, we need to help their parents, too. [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Apr 3, 2023 ### [How America Started to Fall Out of Love With College Degrees](https://time.com/6265266/america-college-degrees-essay/) We’ve gone from pursuing the American Dream to pursuing more doing [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/jenny-anderson/","name":"Jenny Anderson"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/jenny-anderson/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/jenny-anderson/"},"name":"Jenny Anderson","jobTitle":null,"description":"Anderson is a journalist, author and speaker. She spent 20 years covering finance including 10 at the New York Times before shifting her focus to learning. She is currently working on a book about the science of motivating teens (Crown, 2024).","url":"https://time.com/author/jenny-anderson/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```