Textbooks

The atlantic article "Why Are College Textbooks So Absurdly Expensive?" by Jordan Weissmann on January 3, 2013, describes the terrible rise of costly textbooks. According to "The American Enterprise Institute," college textbook prices have risen tremendously since 1978. The chart provided by Weissmann helps understand the exponential increase of college textbooks more so than healthcare, house prices, and inflation. In a recent slate piece, by Kevin Carey, he compares a student to a doctor's…

Life is Good with no Textbooks I hope that my speech will keep you on the edge of your seats. Hopefully, that will be because you are interested, not because you are trying to get up the nerve to leave. Having now attended Forest Heights for some time, I see that it is the perfect school for me, especially considering that I am ready to fully embrace the world of secondary education. Upon commencing my first year as a student here, I found myself delighted at the immensity of the differences…

amusing to waste money and resources when it is not absolutely necessary. Most students don’t have money to waste and our goal is to help every student save as much money as possible. An average college student racks up thousands of dollars in just textbook costs by the end of their college career. We believe we have reached a decision on how we plan to improve and ultimately change the nature of book buybacks and managing course…

that is helpful to both the students and the faculty (tablet-textbooks). The use of a tablet can allow for students to have all of their textbooks on them. Having textbooks on their tablets is really easy to carry and allows them to do their homework basically anywhere they go. This causes for carrying around the tablet which is one to two pounds compared to the heavy weight that would normally have to be carried around with textbooks. According to some studies technology based instructions help…

are great instructors., but teachers are more structured and organized, constantly available for students and more lenient than college professors. In college, students must pay for textbooks while in high school textbooks are provided. Occasionally professors make it a requirement for students to buy expensive textbooks only to use them…

History comes from the Greek word Historia and it means to learn or to inquiry. It’s a vague subject because there so much information that is involved and a lot it being left out. My arguments are do we lie about history to supply clean content to explain history to children in Elementary School systems; teach the true history in schools because children need to know; or wait until children are in college to teach history because the content is controversial. James Baldwin said it best with…

The textbook, Social Studies: Making of a Nation, provided time to complete an in-depth analysis of the textbook’s contents. This paper will analyze the textbook, specifically looking at topics covered and authentic activities that go beyond reading chapters and memorizing facts, the integration of other subject areas into the social studies lesson and content reading strategies and comprehension opportunities, and finally, both formal and authentic assessments used. The companies that publish…

books that are a necessity for classes? What I am getting at is that books from our bookstore are overpriced. In the Rebel Yell article by Ian Whitaker, “In the face of high prices, students skipping out on textbooks”, he expresses how students are willing to risk their grades and not buy textbooks because of their high prices. Working college students are already struggling to pay tuition and others are taking out several loans.…

student’s responsibility to buy textbooks every semester. At several colleges, it is mandatory for students obtain their textbooks before the class begins. One of the major concerns with buying textbooks is the prices. The majority of textbooks have prices over $100, which is a price several students cannot afford. With these prices, colleges may have to include additional payment options such as buying used and renting. The problem with these methods is they drive textbook prices even higher.…

Textbooks are heavy and ipads have more technology but should they switch textbooks out for ipads? Although, people want ipads instead of textbooks I think they should not replace them. To begin with, schools already have chromebooks to use. “They live in the world where they have distractions where they have an ipad on their desk or a smartphone in their pocket “ said Dirk Delo. This shows that people have phones wherever they go. It also explains that how they need to use electronics for…