Access http://www.newyorkfed.org/education/invest/
payingforcollege.html Read “Investing for a College Education.” Explain your answers to the following questions:

• What are three important facts that you learned about funding a college education from this website?
• How do the following compare as investments for college: growth stocks or growth stock funds, zero-coupon bonds or bond funds, 529 college savings plans, U.S. savings bonds, and Coverdell Education Savings Accounts?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of using each of these investments in the question immediately above as a means for financing a college education?
• What is the most important advice that you would give someone who is investing for a college education?

Go to the college adviser in your school to learn about any additional investments that could be used to pay for tuition or other expenses.