Dear Janet,

Thank you for your comments about the upcoming changes to some of the
Discussion Lists. We do feel that many of the issues that impact Content
Standards and Program Leadership & Improvement carry across all the subject
areas of other Discussion Lists. You are right to point out that each list
has its own distinct purposes, but we believe that those purposes and ideas
can be carried over to our other lists. 

We hope that by widening the circle of participation by narrowing down the
numbers of similar lists may reduce the amount of messages cross-posted for
subscribers who are on multiple lists.

We hope that you and other members of the lists that are closing or merging
will contribute your viewpoints through either the merged Poverty, Race and
Women's List or any of our other lists. 

We look forward to continue learning from the varied and rich perspectives
all of the Institute's list subscribers bring to the Institute's forums.

My Linh Nguyen
Associate Director of Communications
National Institute for Literacy
(202) 233-2041
fax (202) 233-2050
mnguyen at nifl.gov