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Burlington, Vermont, has become home over the last few years to an invisible economy of people who work remotely for the world’s biggest technology businesses, including Apple, Google, Twitter, and IBM, hundreds and even thousands of miles from these companies’ chic and sprawling headquarters.
Since COVID-19 scattered people from their offices, this trend appears to be speeding up dramatically, with more young, well-paid and well-educated people relocating permanently from big metropolitan areas to small cities across the country.

It’s been a rocky year for California’s first online community college since it first enrolled students.
But with a change in leadership, Calbright College plans to quickly adapt for a post-coronavirus economy. It is adjusting and learning from past mistakes by focusing on hiring more faculty, building a better relationship with the other 115 community colleges across the state, and fixing the student experience.

What the presidency of Joseph R. Biden means for community colleges, which have been battered by declining enrollments during the pandemic, remains unclear. But the sector knows it will have a strong advocate in the White House: Jill Biden has been a community-college instructor since 1993.
Indeed, looking back at the future First Lady’s 2006 doctoral dissertation makes one thing abundantly clear: She is well versed in the language of student success.

With the nation deep in a global pandemic and an economic recession, the newly elected Biden-Harris Administration has much work ahead to ensure students are protected in a time of unprecedented uncertainty.
Thought leaders and policy experts outline five priority areas they believe the next Education Department must immediately address.