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The National Center for Family Literacy, the First Lady of Iowa and ProLiteracy teamed with the Verizon Foundation to launch technology innovations to help improve literacy. The groups announced the first national awards designed to reward programs that make it easier for parents and caregivers to understand and participate in the technology that their children use at a press conference in Washington, DC at the National Press Club on Nov. 1, 2006. (Jamie Rose/U.S. Newswire)

The National Center for Family Literacy, the First Lady of Iowa and Verizon Literacy Champion Christie Vilsack (seen here) and ProLiteracy teamed with the Verizon Foundation to launch technology innovations to help improve literacy. The groups announced the first national awards designed to reward programs that make it easier for parents and caregivers to understand and participate in the technology that their children use at a press conference in Washington, D.C. at the National Press Club on Nov. 1, 2006. Amy Williams from In2 Books, a nonprofit literacy program for kids based in Washington, D.C., peruses the computers set up at the press conference. (Jamie Rose/U.S. Newswire)

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