LAUREL CONRAN: "I love this program. As a community we want to work together, collaboratively, because when everybody works together it is a win-win situation."

And that's the VOA Special English Education Report. You can read, listen and learn English and much more with our programs and activities at voaspecialenglish.com. You can watch a video about the Howard County program on our website. And you can find captioned videos at the VOA Learning English channel on YouTube. I'm Steve Ember.