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2. Southwestern Advantage - Wikipedia

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   Southwestern Advantage. Southwestern Advantage (formerly known as Southwestern Company), is an education material sales company based in Nashville, TN. The privately owned company recruits college and university students as independent contractors to sell educational books, apps, and website subscriptions door-to-door using direct selling methods.

3. 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 ...

4. College Student Textbook Acquisition An Exploratory Study - ed

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   chase of printed textbooks from the campus bookstore still exists, but now students can purchase e-books, buy online, or rent from either the campus bookstore or from an online provider. This research is an exploratory study of college student textbook acquisition. In this paper, we review the literature regarding the textbook acquisition ...

5. Making College Affordable for Every American | U.S ...

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   Earlier today at the University at Buffalo, the President laid out a plan with three concise steps to make college affordable. The steps are outlined in this White House fact sheet, and include: Linking federal financial aid to college performance, so colleges must demonstrate they provide good value for the investment students make in higher ...

6. Open Textbooks Pilot Program - U.S. Department of Education

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   Program Description. The Open Textbooks Pilot program supports projects at eligible institutions of higher education that create new open textbooks and expand the use of open textbooks in courses that are part of a degree-granting program, particularly those with high enrollments. This pilot program emphasizes the development of projects that ...

7. Making “Free College” Programs Work for College Students with ...

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   omise programs tend to offer free tuition at public, nonprofit colleges. Program characteristics, however, such as eligibility requirements and rules on whether funds can be used to cover non-tuitio. costs, can exclude students who are older, working, or who have children. mong the more than 300 college promise programs in 44 states, including ...

8. Department of Education Launches Outreach Campaign to ...

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   The campaign will inform millions of families with children participating in the free or reduced-price lunch or school breakfast program, and 6.5 million Pell Grant recipients that they are now eligible for the discount of up to $50 per month. Eligible households on qualifying Tribal lands can receive a discount of up to $75 per month.

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

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   As part of the #textbookbroke event in January 2020 at Kimbel Library students were asked when they buy their textbooks. Almost half (49%) of the students who participated indicated that they waited to buy them when the text became necessary for an assignment, 16% said they buy them for the first day, 13% wait for financial aid