Another student, Paul Alceste Zamor, graduated earlier this year. He received the highest possible score on the college-level Advanced Placement test in French. But it was not immediately clear whether he would gain the immigration status required to attend college in the United States.

PAUL ALCESTE ZAMOR: "I want to be a good surgeon, and then go back to Haiti to help people there."

Other Haitian students, including Kerby Edme, say they share that goal of helping Haiti.

KERBY EDME: "Every Haitian, even [if] they weren't there when the earthquake happened, I think they have in mind to go [and be] successful and then do something for the country, even a little bit, because when it all comes together, it makes a big thing."

And that's the VOA Special English Education Report. I'm Christopher Cruise.