"Calvin Baker" is an United States/American novelist.

He attended the University of Chicago Lab Schools, and graduated from Amherst College, where he received his degree in English with highest honors in the major. He currently teaches at Columbia University, and has also taught at Barnard College and the University of Leipzig, Germany.

Esquire Magazine named him one of the best young writers in America in 2005. His third novel, Dominion, was a finalist for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award/Hurston-Wright Award, as well as one of New York Newsday?s Best Books of the Year. He currently lives in New York.

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Every class is a little bit different. Some classes are relying primarily on a service, where you need a password to get to it. Some classes' teachers are using electronic text books as a resource - not as a primary tool but as a resource and then a lot of our classes are relying very heavily on simply free material that is available on the internet.

One mother said that at 8 p.m. in her kitchen, she watched her son have a spirited exchange (online) with his classmates over the content of their homework -- those things just can't happen with paper and pencil.

It was simply motivated by a desire to engage students more, and to make our education more relevant.

We're not trying to eliminate books. We love books.