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November 1 st is "National Family Literacy Day." Tonight you will have the chance to complete a literacy activity with your family. Plan one of the following: •  Think about your favorite picture book. Read the book aloud with your family. Plan on who will read which pages. You may want to plan a craft that your family could also complete. •  Think about a story that your family could write together. You will want to have a setting, plot, and characters. Don't forget to include some illustrations!

The teachers agreed on a system that gives students credit simply for reading. To encourage participation, 30-40 minutes during each 52-minute class period was dedicated to the activity.

These electronic readers, which cost approximately $9,000 total

Ideally, Zach said, each English period would be lengthened to allow for designated reading time, but that's something that must be discussed with administration first.

With Teacher Pal, educators can toss gradebooks, date books, calendars, notebooks, attendance sheets and many other pieces of paper they use to get through their day. Instead, everything is condensed into a single, tidy app.

The latest focus of Quammen's careful attention is Charles Darwin, father of modern biology and source of an idea so radical its implications are still only imperfectly understood: evolution by natural selection. Rather than the extensively covered journey aboard the Beagle, Quammen's The Reluctant Mr. Darwin tracks the naturalist's life through the 20 years afterward -- 20 years when he kept his explosive idea under wraps, pondering when and how to release it to the world.