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Palo Alto schools rake in millions of dollars in grants, offset budget deficit
By Katherine Langford
These part-time professors make big money teaching dozens of classes online. Are their students learning?
Katherine Langford
Katherine Langford
Editor-in-Chief · Edina, MN
Katherine oversees editorial operations across all six brands. Before joining The Meridan Group, she spent 14 years at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, where she led the metro desk through its digital transformation. She holds a Master's in Journalism from Northwestern's Medill School.
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This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. As online classes proliferate, community college professors have found a hack — repackaging similar courses for hundreds of students at a time and teaching more than a dozen classes in a single semester. Professor Thien-Huong Ninh Villarreal has at least two tenured, full-time [ ] The post These part-time professors make big money teaching dozens of classes online. Are their students learning? appeared first on Palo Alto Online.
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