Even though K-12 education is largely a female enterprise, men dominate the chief executive's office in numbers that look especially bleak given that the pool of talent is deep with women.

By Denisa R. Superville, Education Week

The schools in Williston, N.D., are facing a set of unique challenges. A rapidly expanding oil boom has created widespread prosperity in the region, but it has also given rise to a whole host of problems.

As part of a series of reports on how educators are attempting to reform urban schools, education correspondent John Merrow reported in 2007 on the efforts of Washington, D.C., school chancellor Michelle Rhee to turn around the city's troubled school…