profiles

Terry Grier, the new superintendent of the Houston Independent School District, moves quickly to improve teacher quality and student performance.

Superintendent Walt Rulffes of Nevada's Clark County School District

Denver (Colo.) Public Schools

$12.4 million in grant money was given to public primary and secondary schools to support "critical foreign languages" such as Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Russian, to help students compete in a global marketplace.

Merrill and his board developed "Compass to 2015: A Strategic Plan for Student Success."

Georgia's superintendent of schools is a controversial educator who won $1 million on a television show, attempted to tinker with science education and has advanced teacher training.

Finalists asked what their number-one priority is for 2010.

This creative media specialist uses MP3 players to engage with students learning English.

Ron Huberman has spent his first year as schools CEO confronting an epidemic of urban teen violence.