Helping The Homeless Work Towards A Diploma

For many college students, survival means keeping up on assigned reading, maintaining an acceptable grade-point average and squeezing in extracurricular activities. But for those at Advantage Academy, a program offered by the city’s Department of Homeless Services and St. John’s University to provide homeless and formerly homeless people with the chance to earn an associate’s degree, survival looks like something altogether different. Besides sustaining the level of commitment that college requires, these students have the additional worries of a homeless single parent — trying to make ends meet. Read more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/06/nyregion/06homeless.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss