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Voyager Expanded Learning and 3P Learning Host World Math Day Competition

Students From Around the Globe Compete Online as They Strive to Answer More
                  Than 10 Million Math Questions Correctly

    DALLAS, March 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Voyager Expanded Learning(R) and 3P
Learning announced today that they will host a celebration of numbers, with
support from Microsoft Corporation, to recognize World Math Day on March
14, 2007. Children of all ages and ability levels from around the globe
will unite in their quest to set a world record in answering math questions
correctly on Voyager's VmathLive(TM) website (http://www.vmathlive.com) and 3P
Learning's Live Mathletics(R) Game Engine (http://www.mathletics.com.au and
http://www.mathletics.co.uk).
    The event will begin on March 14 west of the International Dateline and
continues through to the last minute of March 14 east of the International
Dateline. Students will take part in real-time battles of speed and skill
and may participate either at home or at school.
    More than 65 countries are currently registered for the competition and
include Albania, Angola, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brazil,
Cote d'Ivoire, Canada, Canary Islands, China, Colombia , Costa Rica,
Cyprus, Ecuador, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala,
Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Jordan,
Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal,
Netherlands, New Zealand, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Portugal, Puerto
Rico, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia,
South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan,
Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom,
United States, and Zimbabwe.
    Existing VmathLive and Mathletics schools will have automatic entry
into the event. Current Vmath customers can register by visiting
http://www.voyagerlearning.com and logging into VPORT, Voyager's Professional
Online Resource Tool. Teachers can register non-Vmath students free of
charge at http://www.voyagerlearning.com/worldmathday.
    For countries outside the U.S., visit http://www.worldmathsday.com or
http://www.worldmathday.com to register. Schools and teachers are encouraged to
register their students before March 5, 2007.
    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 programs, to
more than 900 school districts in cities such as Dallas, Phoenix, New York,
Philadelphia and Los Angeles, resulting in dramatically improved student
performance. Voyager Expanded Learning, L.P. is based in Dallas, Texas. For
more information, please visit http://www.voyagerlearning.com or call
1-888-399-1995.
    About 3P Learning:
    Founded in 2003, 3P Learning develops e-learning resources for students
and teachers. Key to the success of 3P Learning's resources is the idea
that play plus practice equals progress. The company's e-Learning resources
are written by teachers who hold this philosophy at their core, and are
proven to engage and motivate students to achieve excellent results. 3P
Learning develops curriculum-based resources for the Internet that are
currently used by over 1000 Australian schools and that have been used by
close to 1 million students. For teachers, 3P Learning uses technology to
provide up to the minute information on students' progress and the ability
to fully differentiate within a class to target individual student needs.
For more information about 3P Learning, please visit http://www.3PLearning.com.au.

SOURCE Voyager Expanded Learning

http://www.voyagerlearning.com

http://www.mathletics.com.au

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CONTACT:
Shannan Overbeck of Voyager Expanded
Learning, 1-888-399-1995 ext. 9476,
soverbeck@voyagerlearning.com; Liz Wheatley, Marketing Manager of
3P Learning, +61-2-8917-5645; Jennifer Chelune, Investor
Relations Manager of ProQuest Company, +1-734-997-4910,
jennifer.chelune@proquest.com