Welcome to the National Institute for Literacy’s Poverty, Race, and Literacy Discussion List. This list is moderated by Donna Brian.

The purpose of this list is to provide an on-going professional development forum where providers, advocates, researchers, learners, policy makers, and all other persons interested in exploring the linkages between poverty, race, and literacy can exchange information. This list will promote awareness among the service providing, policymaking, and academic communities of the interrelated issues of poverty, homelessness, and literacy. Discussion topics include: the relationships among poverty, homelessness, and literacy in the United States and in other countries; the hidden rules of persons living with the effects of poverty or homelessness and the misunderstandings these can cause in the teaching/learning process; the limited access of certain people to resources; sharing of resources related to poverty, homelessness and literacy among providers, and exploration of potential research projects in the area of poverty, homelessness, and literacy

Find out more information about the Center for Literacy Studies at http://cls.coe.utk.edu/. Donna Brian can be reached at djgbrian@utk.edu.