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DALLAS, Nov. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Voyager Expanded Learning(R) announced today that the number of students accessing its online reading and math programs continues to climb, particularly during after school hours and on weekends. Last week, more than 165,000 students logged on to the company's three web-based intervention programs, Ticket to Read(TM), a K-5 online reading program, Strategic Online Learning Opportunities(R) (SOLO(R)), a secondary online reading program, and VmathLive(TM), a 3-8 online math program.

During the week of November 17, 2008, more than 120,000 students logged on to Ticket to Read and after school and weekend usage on the program reached 31 percent. Students using Ticket to Read have read more than six million passages, with more than one million passages read this month alone. More than 23,000 middle school and high school students also logged on to SOLO.

Use of the Voyager online math program, VmathLive, also continues to be strong with more than 23,000 students participating in the program. In addition to normal in-class use, twenty-six percent of students logged on to the program during after school and weekend hours.

"We are very excited that students are taking advantage of the online capabilities and availability of our reading and math technology," said Ron Klausner, president of Voyager Expanded Learning. "It is great to see a good percentage of students consistently using the programs during after school hours and on weekends, which translates into success in the classroom."

Voyager Expanded Learning

Voyager Expanded Learning provides core, intervention, and supplemental reading programs, as well as math intervention and ongoing professional development programs, for school districts throughout the United States. Founded in 1994, Voyager has delivered extended-time reading and basic skills intervention programs, as well as large-scale reading and math programs, to more than 1,000 school districts in cities such as Buffalo, N.Y.; Miami; New York City; Richmond, Va.; El Paso, Texas; and Los Angeles, resulting in dramatically improved student performance. Voyager Expanded Learning, Inc. is a business unit of Voyager Learning Company (OTC: VLCY.PK) and based in Dallas, Texas. For more information, please visit www.voyagerlearning.com or call 1-888-399-1995.