Offering a Leg Up Online

U. of Maryland program provides a boost to the working poor -- if they can handle it

By SCOTT CARLSON

Serena Cook had been through more hard knocks than most people before she took up her latest challenge -- becoming a college student.

She grew up in a tough neighborhood in Baltimore and bore her first child at the age of 13, but she managed to earn a high-school...

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