{"id":4941,"date":"2025-11-21T17:03:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T17:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/news\/no-safe-ground-brant-explains-cost-of-poverty-in-appalachias-flood-zones-copy\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T20:09:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T20:09:48","slug":"no-safe-ground-2","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/news\/no-safe-ground-2\/","title":{"rendered":"RSS Member Catharine Biddle (University of Maine) Quoted in New York Times Piece on Rural Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4941\" data-postid=\"4941\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4941 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_wera100 tb_first tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full tb_gpmv200 first\">\n                    <!-- module fancy heading -->\n<div  class=\"module module-fancy-heading tb_c403222 \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <h1 class=\"fancy-heading\">\n    <span class=\"main-head tf_block\">\n                    RSS Member Catharine Biddle (University of Maine) Quoted in New York Times Piece on Rural Youth            <\/span>\n\n    \n    <span class=\"sub-head tf_block tf_rel\">\n                                <\/span>\n    <\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module fancy heading -->\n<!-- Breadcrumbs module -->\n<div  class=\"module module-breadcrumbs tb_1flb029 \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n\t<nav role=\"navigation\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumbs\" class=\"tbp_breadcrumb_trail\"><ul class=\"tbp_trail_items\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/BreadcrumbList\"><meta name=\"numberOfItems\" content=\"1\" \/><meta name=\"itemListOrder\" content=\"Ascending\" \/><li itemprop=\"itemListElement\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ListItem\" class=\"tbp_trail_item tbp_trail_end\"><a itemprop=\"item\" href=\"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/\" rel=\"home\"><span itemprop=\"name\">Home<\/span><\/a><meta itemprop=\"position\" content=\"1\" \/><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div><!-- \/Breadcrumbs module -->\n<!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_6uaq930   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <p data-start=\"228\" data-end=\"667\">A recent New York Times opinion piece title &#8220;How Rural Kids Got Left Behind&#8221; quoted <strong>Dr. Catharine Biddle<\/strong> from the University of Maine, who researches rural education. <strong>Biddle<\/strong> 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, &#8220;&#8216;We&#8217;ll probably all be in trouble for hugging a kid&#8217;: Rural teacher radicalism in addressing adverse childhood experiences,&#8221; in which Biddle interviewed over 100 educators in rural Maine, was also cited in the opinion piece.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"671\" data-end=\"993\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/11\/19\/opinion\/rural-education-jobs.html\">\ud83d\udd17 Read the full article<\/a><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Catherine Biddle<\/strong> (University of Maine) was quoted in a recent New York Times Opinion piece on rural education, especially as it pertains to wraparound services and challenges in providing those. <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/11\/19\/opinion\/rural-education-jobs.html\">\ud83d\udd17 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5014,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","news_announcements":[25,41],"class_list":["post-4941","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_announcements-member-in-the-news","news_announcements-youth-education-and-rural-vitality","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"ptb_metabox":[],"ptb_taxonomy":{"news_announcements":[{"term_id":25,"name":"Member in the News","slug":"member-in-the-news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":25,"taxonomy":"news_announcements","description":"","parent":0,"count":45,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":41,"name":"Youth, Education, and Rural Vitality","slug":"youth-education-and-rural-vitality","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":41,"taxonomy":"news_announcements","description":"","parent":26,"count":4,"filter":"raw"}]},"ptb_featured_image":{"url":"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/School-buses-Coburn-PA-Penn-Valley-2018-11-03-5.jpg","title":"School buses Coburn PA Penn Valley 2018 11 03 (5)","caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/4941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_announcements","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_announcements?post=4941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}