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Reprise: How Much Do Community College Students Actually Pay For Textbooks?

By Phil Hill. Posted on July 28, 2016

Last month the nonprofit advocacy group Achieving the Dream announced a new initiative to fund 38 community colleges who are willing to build entire programs with open educational resources. While this is a noble effort aimed at reducing financial barriers for students to get two-year degrees, the group perpetuated the same myth that has plagued higher education for years.

Data To Back Up Concerns Of Textbook Expenditures By First-Generation Students

By Phil Hill. Posted on November 12, 2015

David Wiley has added to the conversation over use of data on college textbook pricing and student spending patterns with “The Practical Cost of Textbooks”. The key argument is to go beyond prices and spending and look at the most direct measure of asking students themselves how textbooks costs have impacted them.

Asking What Students Spend On Textbooks Is Very Important, But Insufficient

By Phil Hill. Posted on November 10, 2015

It is important to look at both types of data – textbook list prices and student expenditures – to see some of the important market dynamics at play. All in all, students are exercising their market power to keep their expenditures down – buying used, renting, borrowing, obtaining illegally, delaying purchase, or just not using at all.

Bad Data Can Lead To Bad Policy: College students don’t spend $1,200+ on textbooks

By Phil Hill. Posted on November 8, 2015

The average US college student does not spend or budget more than $1,200 for textbooks, with that number rising each year, as commonly reported in the national media. The best data available continues to show that students spend roughly half of that amount, and that number is going down over time, not up. Last spring […]

About the Diverging Textbook Prices and Student Expenditures

By Phil Hill. Posted on March 30, 2015

This is part 3 in this series. Part 1 described the most reliable data on A) how much US college textbook prices are rising and B) how much students actually pay for textbooks, showing that the College Board data is not reliable for either measure. Part 2 provided additional detail on the data source (College […]

Postscript on Student Textbook Expenditures: More details on data sources

By Phil Hill. Posted on March 27, 2015

There has been a fair amount of discussion around my post two days ago about what US postsecondary students actually pay for textbooks. The shortest answer is that US college students spend an average of $600 per year on textbooks despite rising retail prices. I would not use College Board as a source on this […]

How Much Do College Students Actually Pay For Textbooks?

By Phil Hill. Posted on March 25, 2015

With all of the talk about the unreasonably high price of college textbooks, the unfulfilled potential of open educational resources (OER), and student difficulty in paying for course materials, it is surprising how little is understood about student textbook expenses. The following two quotes illustrate the most common problem. Atlantic: “According to a recent College Board […]

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