Associate Professor of Education Mara Tieken recently offered a stirring and evidence-driven defense of the Department of Education in the Portland Press Herald and a commentary about rural school closures 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. “Every year, hundreds of thousands of children are displaced when their schools are permanently shuttered,” Tieken writes.

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Mara C. Tieken

Associate Professor of Education