Weekend Reading: A 99-year-old oil heiress, a $40 million gift and a tiny school's good fortune

An oil multimillionaire ends her quiet, humble century with a massive gift to the tiny school she loved. (Washington Post)
A new study reveals a white collar crime epidemic in charter schools. (Salon)
A teacher spent two days shadowing students and came away with inspiration and sympathy. (Answer Sheet)
The mother of a child with special needs notes problems with evaluating nonverbal children. (Uncommon Sense)
Teachers unions are pressing Time Magazine to apologize for its cover story about “rotten apple” educators. (HuffPo)
The KIPP charter network is moving beyond the basics to invest heavily in technology-infused instruction. (Hechinger)
Getting low-income kids to go to school more frequently could have a big impact on test scores. (Vox)
California students lost a wormy science experiment in this week’s NASA rocket explosion. (Oakland Tribune)
Los Angeles officials are working feverishly to fix sweeping errors in high school transcripts. (L.A. School Report)
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has softened on testing. Some say the president pushed him to. (Politics K-12)
Some say teachers unions have turned on the Common Core, but the truth is more complicated. (Ed Next)
An internal memo reveals the lengths that Teach For America goes to to combat what it sees as criticism. (The Nation)
Kids who don’t love science class love watching YouTube-star science teachers. Here’s why. (Atlantic)
Stock photos tell hilariously misleading stories about teaching. (Buzzfeed)