42 mature individuals, with a median age of 38 yr., who had lost their teaching positions in Southern schools because of desegregation procedures, were subjected, as members of an NDEA Institute, to special training to enable them to fulfill New York City Board of Education qualifications for teachers. Massive educational handicaps, revealed in habitual modes of oral and written expression, were overcome to a substantial degree in 3 mo. of intensive effort, with 71% of the group attaining “acceptable” levels for service in the school system.