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More college students giving textbooks a pass.
Byline: Susan C. Thomson
ST. LOUIS, Mo. _ Ron Mozelewski teaches introductory economics pretty much by the textbook, one chapter after another. In his informal lectures, he refers often to specific pages where students can find information they'll need for tests.
Yet more than a week into the new semester, only about half of his students have brought the assigned book to his class at St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley. Some say they simply left it at home. Others plead good intentions, saying they plan to buy it.
Mozelewski's experience tells him, though, that five to 10 students in this class of 25 or so will never get around to getting the book. He says that's the way it's been for several years in his classes and those of some of his colleagues. And they're worried about it.
So is the National Association of College Stores, which estimates that about 20 percent of undergraduates nationwide aren't buying, renting or otherwise acquiring the books their professors expect them to have. In surveys, only about 42 percent of students have told the ...
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