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Knowledge creates power for life: Online courses and resolve help a mother and daughter succeed in spite of hard times.
Byline: Elaine Aradillas
Dec. 28--Graduation usually is steeped in traditions filled with pomp and circumstance, but the mother-daughter duo who crossed the stage last week were anything but traditional.
Barbara Newman, 39, and her 20-year-old daughter Stephanie of Poinciana graduated from Brevard Community College on Dec. 21 with associate of arts degrees, which they earned mostly through online courses.
For three years, Barbara focused on the prize of arming herself with a degree despite a taxing lifestyle that involved a pending divorce, full-time job and raising three girls, including a child with special needs.
"You have to have an education to survive in this world," she says. "You can't make it on $7 an hour."
More than a decade ago, the pair left Illinois for Central Florida. Barbara wanted a…
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