This article details some of the underlying assumptions of teacher retraining efforts, both inservice and preservice, and ties them into ongoing problems of racism in public schools. (Author)

Teachers in racially desegregated classrooms often need special instruction or retraining for the peculiar academic and social problems of their students. Planning such training programs involves identifying change "targets" (persons or relations the change efforts will focus on) and choosing appropriate "strategies" or training methods. Targets…