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2. Access to Reading Materials - U.S. Department of Education

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   The U.S. Department of Education (Department) recognizes the importance of ensuring every child in the country has access to reading materials in their homes and communities. In an effort to (1) promote increased efforts to address opportunity gaps and (2) highlight opportunities to improve coordination between schools, libraries, and other ...

3. Textbooks 101: What You Really Need to Know About Textbook ...

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   the book to class, the library, and back home to use it at all those locations. In addition, hardcopy textbooks can cost as much as $400. Updates to the book’s content require new editions to be published, which occurs every 3-4 years on average. Each edition of textbook increases its cost by about 12%, and the cost of the new edition

4. Books and Supplies as Part of Tuition and Fees (668.164(c ...

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   Books and Supplies as Part of Tuition and Fees (668.164(c) and (m)) During the two decades leading up to 2016, the cost of books, course materials, supplies, and equipment for college courses increased by 88 percent,1 more than nearly any other college student expense. As a result of increasing costs, many students chose not to purchase ...

5. Rethinking the Traditional Textbook: A Case for Open ... - ed

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   offer an e-textbook option for purchase, usually at a lower price than a traditional print textbook. While an e-textbook can decrease costs for students, literature has shown if students must pay for course reading materials, they prefer a print traditional textbook over an e-textbook (Woody, Daniel, and Baker 2010).

6. OpenStax - Wikipedia

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   OpenStax (formerly OpenStax College) is a nonprofit educational technology initiative based at Rice University. Since 2012, OpenStax has created peer-reviewed, openly-licensed textbooks, which are available in free digital formats and for a low cost in print. Most books are also available in Kindle versions on Amazon.com and in the iBooks Store.

7. Are Open Educational Resources the New Textbooks?

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   Traditional printed textbooks are failing to keep up with the shifting needs of modern K–12 education. Changing academic standards can render relatively new textbooks obsolete; a 2017 survey of 584 districts found that most districts adopted new textbooks and related curriculum materials every 6–10 years, and the most commonly cited reason was the need for materials that align with new ...