Tackling the high cost of textbooks
COLLEGE students already burdened by skyrocketing tuition deserve relief from overpriced textbooks.
All the more reason to cheer and support a pioneering effort pushed by the state Board of Community and Technical Colleges to develop new, dramatically less expensive textbooks and learning materials.
The board's new Open Course Library currently has less costly versions of learning materials for 42 of the state's most heavily enrolled community-college courses, including entry-level classes. An additional 39 courses will be ready by 2013.