Calvin Baker
Calvin Baker
Calvin Bakeris an American novelist, essayist, editor, and futurist who has chronicled the African American experience from the Colonial era to the present, centering the Black voice and perspective within the context of multicultural, global history. Among his concerns are American identity, cosmopolitanism, race, post-colonialism, the collapse of modernism, geography, and science. His work is often praised for its expansiveness and richness of language...
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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.
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We've always been pretty aggressive in use of technology and we have a history of taking risks.
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