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Rising College Tuition

Following the Money: Where is it NOT going? Textbooks and Professors Data show that 75.9 cents of every dollar students pay for textbooks will be received by the publishers. From this, 11.5 cents will be forwarded to the authors of

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A Look at the Books

Textbook Costs According to College Board college textbook and supply costs average $1200 per year.   Some efforts to address these costs include: Going Without A 2013 survey of 2039 students conducted by Student PIRGs found that 65% of college students

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Money, Money, Money

How Students Are Paying for Education in the U.S. Financial Aid/Loans/Grants/Scholarships American Student Assistance reports that according to The Chronicle of Higher Education of the 20 million students enrolled in college each year 60% take out some form of loans

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