RSS Member Catharine Biddle (University of Maine) Quoted in New York Times Piece on Rural Youth
A recent New York Times opinion piece title “How Rural Kids Got Left Behind” quoted Dr. Catharine Biddle from the University of Maine, who researches rural education. Biddle provided comments on the importance of wraparound services, which provide students with necessities like food and health care in the form of school nurses and counselors on site. She noted that while these services are vital, they are costly and rural areas are already facing issues like teacher shortages. Her article from the Rural Educator, “‘We’ll probably all be in trouble for hugging a kid’: Rural teacher radicalism in addressing adverse childhood experiences,” in which Biddle interviewed over 100 educators in rural Maine, was also cited in the opinion piece.