Carnegie Learning Sees New Act as Beneficial to Higher Education
August 7, 2008
The College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2008, aimed at managing the cost of post-secondary education, passed in the Senate last week by unanimous consent and now moves to the President for approval. The bill has the potential to drive down the cost of academic materials by requiring publishers to price and sell components separately so that costs per item are transparent to instructors and students. Carnegie Learning CEO, Dennis Ciccone, says, "This bill is an important step toward elevating the quality of all academic materials because it encourages textbook publishers to demonstrate the value of each component, rather than including cost-inflating extras that may or may not have real value to the instructors or the students." Carnegie Learning's higher education software programs correlates to math textbooks from leading publishers and povides self-paced, individualized learning paths that track students' strengths and weaknesses and focus on areas where each student needs the most help.
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