Guest-Teaching Chinese, and Learning America
By SAM DILLON
Matt Nager for The New York Times
Zheng Yue, who has been teaching Chinese in MacArthur High School in Lawton, Okla., working with a student, Raymond Veal.
A program brings teachers from China to the U.S. to teach language and culture, but the learning goes both ways.
Charter Schools’ New Cheerleaders: Financiers
By TRIP GABRIEL and JENNIFER MEDINA
Financial heavyweights are spending freely in an unlikely crusade to expand charters in New York, in opposition to the teachers unions.
A Football Coach Used to Tests Insists Her Players Pass Theirs
By JULIET MACUR
Natalie Randolph, the football coach of Calvin Coolidge Senior High School in Washington, has emphasized helping players in the classroom.
What’s in a Name? A Lot, as It Turns Out
By ERIK ECKHOLM
Max Pauson’s strong sense of self was hard-earned, forged in an unstable childhood with no legal name. His birth certificate read “(baby boy) Pauson.”
David E. Apter, Yale Political Scientist, Is Dead at 85
By DENNIS HEVESI
Professor Apter wove his expertise in political science and sociology into influential treatises on the often-tortured birth of developing nations.
SUNDAY ROUTINE | DAVID LEVIN
Six Days of School, and Then a Day Not of Rest
By ELISSA GOOTMAN
David Levin, co-founder of the KIPP charter school network, spends Sundays with his wife, their 1-year-old son and friends and family.