It's More Than The Overpriced Textbooks That Make College Unaffordable

According to "parents" report, the United States is ranked 17th in the world education ranking, but this is correct. From primary school to high school, I am taught by a teacher who is missing materials to properly educate my children in the classroom.

Two years ago, I was studying a textbook published in 2006, but with a newer version. Now I understand why my high school is not interested in buying those new textbooks, they have only a few hundred dollars! Regardless of whether they have money to buy hundreds of textbooks for students, the price is ridiculous

Spring semester is about to begin as a college student all over the country, and everyone is looking for the best price at school textbook store and internet.

I will buy three books (even textbooks) for over $ 200, until Chegg.com reminds students that they are allowed to borrow cheaper textbooks than the textbooks UT Corp. sells. I learned that it was not necessary.

If it was not for Chegg, I would not be able to afford the textbooks necessary for my course because I could not afford the discounted price UT asserts. Fortunately, I will pay 74 dollars including free returns after the end of the term.

Professor UT Austin believes that it is absolutely impossible for students to purchase the resources they need to go through their courses. Classic novels are usually prices less than $ 30, but hardcover textbooks cost more than $ 100 each time. iClickers, attendance applications, access codes, blue books, and scanners for professors necessary for course. Did they forget that we paid thousands of dollars for that class?

Many of these course requirements are stupid and not so important for the teaching materials learned in the classroom. Blue Book is just a patchwork of paper. Applications like Squarecap do not motivate students to stop skipping classes (from personal experience).

If education is as important as our society, students should not be able to contribute to the professor's "obligatory textbook".

There was another attack against high school textbooks. This time, 38 community colleges use open educational resources to develop courses. (The hat reminds me of Mark Perry at Carpe Diem Blog.) Thinking about textbooks in the public domain, the length of the textbook is too narrow. Many courses include interactive learning modules and educational tools. This movement comes from the community college. It is surprising that students' expenses are more sensitive than traditional four-year colleges. In many courses, a completely free online textbook is an easy solution (if there is a motivation to find a solution). These courses are widely used in the most common undergraduate courses such as economics and biology. If the material is not protected by copyright, courses that require reading other than textbooks may be quite cheap. The Republic of Plato is available online for free. Frequently assigned non-textbooks are usually very cheap

OpenStax College, a non-profit textbook publisher at Rice University, publishes an open textbook for 20 best admission programs. Only their public textbooks have been adopted on more than 1,000 courses and have saved about $ 30 million students so far. (Source: OpenStax College, 2014)

One aspect of education in university textbooks is to develop at a very fast rate. According to Huffington Post, university textbooks are growing faster than tuition fees themselves. More specifically, textbooks have grown at a rate of 812% per year since 1978. According to the article, this ratio weakens the rates related to housing and medical markets. Accommodation, in addition to student health and tuition, academic textbooks are the most expensive one the students put in each year. The National University Stores Association has set the price of textbooks to an annual average of $ 655. Other sources like US News say that students can spend more than $ 1,200 a year on textbooks. These figures bring real problems to student life, but most students do not have enough deep wallets to meet this need. Because of this fact, students withdrew completely from the process.