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For Immediate Release
More than 1000 Books Donated to Farmers Branch
Elementary after International Literacy Day Celebration
Farmers Branch, Texas, October 13, 2005 – Students at Farmers Branch Elementary School, located at 13521 Tom Field Road, will have the opportunity to pick from more than 1000 books that employees from Voyager Expanded Learning will deliver to the school on October 13, 2005, between 11:30 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. Each student in grades K-5 will be able to choose one book, and the remaining titles will be distributed to classrooms and the school library.
The books were collected by Voyager employees during the company’s celebration of International Literacy Day on September 8 th. Employees donated new or gently-used books for elementary school students or gave a cash donation of $5 that bought three new books.
International Literacy Day was founded on September 8, 1966, at a conference on the Eradication of Illiteracy. The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) inaugurated its official observance of International Literacy Day in 1967. Since then, a community of nations hosts local and international events that recognize the importance of literacy every September 8th. In the last five years, Education for All (an initiative of UNESCO) set the goal of increasing literacy rates by 50 percent by 2015, and the United Nations adopted a resolution to make 2003-2012 the Literacy Decade.
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. The Voyager Universal Literacy System® is the only reading program patented for its “method and system for preventing illiteracy.” Founded in 1994, Voyager has delivered extended-time reading and basic skills intervention programs, as well as large-scale reading programs, to more than 1,000 school districts in cities such as Dallas, Phoenix, New York, Philadelphia, and the District of Columbia, resulting in dramatically improved student performance. Partnerships and collaborations with the Discovery Channel and the Smithsonian Institution enable Voyager to provide timely and powerful curricula for the American classroom. Voyager Expanded Learning is a subsidiary ProQuest Company based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. For more information, please visit www.voyagerlearning.com or call 1.888.399.1995.
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