CliffsNotes Parents' Guide to Paying for College and Repaying... by Reyna Gobel

Learn how to save without hurting their own financial futuresĬhapter one provides a savings plan by which parents can save up to $10,000 without affecting their lifestyle in the slightest. Here are some components to the book that will help ease parents’ anxiety about college savings:ġ. is referred to as a helpful resource for comparing and contrasting 529 plans to find the best savings option. Her book tackles the anxiety issue of saving for college and helps families save what they can without impacting their own financial futures. News & World Report, Forbes, among others. With that, we are very excited to be featured in Reyna Gobel’s new book “CliffsNotes Parents’ Guide to Paying for College and Repaying Student Loans.” An expert on student loans and paying for college, Gobel is a journalist and has written for U.S. We are constantly thinking of ways to be a valuable college savings resource to you and your families. CSPN strives to ease this anxiety, offering objective information on 529 plans and assisting families in achieving their higher education goals. One of the biggest obstacles to parents starting or increasing their college savings contributions is the anxiety over whether they’ll be able to save enough to enable their children to attend college. In 2021, CliffsNotes was acquired by Course Hero.Director of the WA Guaranteed Education Tuition (GET) and Chair of the College Savings Plans Network In 2012, CliffsNotes was acquired by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This would be a series of 60-second video study guides of literary works. In 2011, CliffsNotes announced a joint venture with Mark Burnett, a TV producer. John Wiley & Sons acquired IDG Books (renamed Hungry Minds) in 2001. IDG Books purchased CliffsNotes in 1998 for $14.2 million. The term 'Cliff's Notes' has now become a proprietary eponym for similar products. CliffsNotes now exist for hundreds of works. By 1964, sales reached one million Notes annually. Hillegass and his wife, Catherine, started the business in their basement at 511 Eastridge Drive in Lincoln, with sixteen William Shakespeare titles.

Coles published a series of Canadian study guides called Coles Notes, and sold Hillegass the U.S. He was working at Nebraska Book Company of Lincoln, Nebraska, when he met Jack Cole, the co-owner of Coles, a Toronto book business.

History ĬliffsNotes was started by Nebraska native Clifton Hillegass in 1958. The company claims to promote the reading of the original work and does not view the study guides as a substitute for that reading. Detractors of the study guides claim they let students bypass reading the assigned literature. The guides present and create literary and other works in pamphlet form or online. CliffsNotes are a series of student study guides.

CliffsNotes Parents' Guide to Paying for College and Repaying... by Reyna Gobel