Textbooks account for up to three-quarters of the cost of attending community college and about one-fourth the cost at universities, says Nicole Allen, director of the Make Textbooks Affordable campaign, a coalition of Student Public Interest Research Groups and student government associations in 14 states. The biggest cost driver has been the bundling of textbooks with CD-ROMs and other supplemental materials, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
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- Alexandra
- A homeschooling mother of one teenager and a little. In 2001, I resigned from my 13 year position as a case manager to homeschool my oldest who was a preschooler at the time, and later a daughter who came along in 2005. This is by far the hardest job I've ever loved. My husband of nearly 20 years supports us as a fire fighter and EMT.
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During my second year of college, a friend of mine showed me that i could take out most of my required textbooks from the library! I went to Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio and we could link to OPAL (I don't remember what OPAL stood for), but it was a website that connected university and public libraries in Ohio. I would search there online site and request books be sent to our university library. I would renew them twice during the semester and I was set. I only bought one text book after that and was able to borrow or trade text with friend if I couldn't find a particular text on OPAL. The only time I had to borrow/trade was for some Spanish workbooks I needed. I saved thousands of dollars by doing this!
Resourceful! Thanks for sharing. :)
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