Dear Discussion List Participants, 

Today, the National Institute for Literacy is moving the Poverty Race & Literacy List discussion list to a fully moderated format. Our goal is to enhance professional development for educators and practitioners through ongoing opportunities to learn, discuss, and reflect on critical literacy issues. 

There will be no significant changes in the way you receive your discussion list mail.  Each list will have a moderator who will facilitate dialogue about the latest literacy research and its applications to instructional practice; promising policies and practices -- in addition to promoting the exchange of ideas, resources, and experience.  The moderator will review messages posted to the list daily, prior to releasing it to subscribers.  Please review the Discussion List Guidelines at http://www.nifl.gov/lincs/discussions/list_guidelines.html for more information.  

As subscribers, you can continue to post to the list, the list email address is: povertyliteracy at dev.nifl.gov

The purpose of the Poverty Race & Literacy 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. Donna Brian, from the Center for Literacy Studies, University of Tennessee, will moderate this list. 

We encourage discussion list participants to focus your contributions to the Poverty Race & Literacy List. Your comments, suggestions, references, and ideas posted to the discussion lists continue serve as resources for enhancing the field's capacity and knowledge base.  We encourage open discourse and an exchange of information, ideas, and practices among all list subscribers.  As in the past, differences in perspectives and ideas are welcome, especially when they are voiced in the spirit of inquiry, curiosity, and mutual respect.  

Thank you for your dedication to this online community.  We look forward to sharing and learning with you.   

Sincerely, 
Tanya Shuy and Mary Jo Maralit 
National Institute for Literacy 


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