The bridegroom's mother is a literacy specialist at Southwest Human Development, a nonprofit educational organization in Phoenix.

Supplemental activities for each book are developed by an early literacy specialist.

"It ran counter to what he stood for," says Gerald Zimmermann, a former speech professor at Iowa and now a literacy specialist.

His mother, a literacy specialist, consults for the Boston Plan for Excellence, a nonprofit organization seeking to improve public schools.

The institute is intended for classroom teachers, literacy specialists, and administrators who would like to deepen or update their knowledge of effective assessment and instruction in literacy.

His mother, Carol Schmitz, is a literacy specialist who tutors students at Newton Bateman Elementary School and other Chicago public schools.

The weekly program includes teachers, literacy specialists and parents in an approach that galvanizes children's imaginations.

Tal Streeter, an artist, and Pam Allyn, a literacy specialist, will help each child make a poetry kite: a 9-inch-by-9-foot banner with a message worthy of soaring.

Although financial literacy specialists praised the foundation's intentions, many questioned the campaign's potential effectiveness.

He was born on November 20, 1973 in Moscow, Idaho, the younger of two sons of an architect and his wife, a literacy specialist.