Mara Tieken: “Maine needs the U.S. Department of Education”
Associate Professor of Education Mara Tieken recently offered a sand a in The Daily Yonder, a national news outlet dedicated to reporting on rural people and places. Tieken, who studies rural education and previously worked as a third grade teacher in rural Tennessee, detailed how school closures and consolidations harm students and their communities. 鈥淓very year, hundreds of thousands of children are displaced when their schools are permanently shuttered,鈥� Tieken writes.
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Mara C. Tieken
Professor of Education