District Fights To Preserve Deseg & Achievement Closing Efforts

Hidden in among all the early childhood stories in this month's American Prospect is a K12 story by writing fellow Dana Goldstein (pictured) about a interesting but controversial effort to improve minority achievement in Ossining New York, the town where Goldstein grew up.   Currently under legal challenge, the Ossining effort includes  special programs for African American boys and -- most distinctive -- sending local kids to three different buildings during their elementary years to ensure integration.  In what could otherwise be a standard-issue "desegregation is dead" lament from the left, Goldstein carefully traces the concerns raised by these efforts, the district's notable and self-funded resistance to give them up, and their surprisingly mixed effects.  (Left Behind?)