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Textbooks: Sympathy for the debt-laden - Editorial

Boston Globe

July 27, 2010

Despite certain provisions of the Higher Education Opportunity Act in 2008 that went into effect this month, professors and universities lack strong incentives to minimize the financial burden of expensive textbooks on students. Educators should see paring down required reading lists as a duty to their debt-laden pupils. They should also investigate more imaginative alternatives.

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