Colleagues in literacy efforts,

As you have come to know, the Poverty, Race, & Literacy Discussion List
is being closed this Monday, along with the Women and Literacy
Discussion List, and a new list is being created: the Poverty, Race,
Women & Literacy Discussion List.  The moderator of the new list is
Daphne Greenburg, the current moderator of the Women & Literacy list.  I
want to take this opportunity to encourage you to become a member of the
new list, and to thank you for your membership and contributions to the
Poverty, Race & Literacy list over the last year while I was the
moderator. I learned a lot as your moderator, and was encouraged that so
many of you have such deep feelings about the roles that poverty and
race play in literacy. I think these roles and how they both overlap and
affect literacy individually will be explored equally well with the new
list and Daphne as moderator. I have been a participant in the Women
list for several years and have always been impressed with her handling
of the issues and the posts of her members.  I will certainly join the
new list.

Again, thank you for your support and contributions over the last year,
and I'll "see" you on the new list!

Donna

Donna Brian
Center for Literacy Studies at The University of Tennessee
djgbrian at utk.edu