Martin Haberman is an educator who has developed interviewing techniques for identifying teachers and principals who will be successful in working with poor children. The most widely known of his programs was The National Teacher Corps, which was based on his intern program in Milwaukee. He is an advisor to alternative certification programs around the United States and has developed ways of bringing more minorities into teaching. Currently, his developmental efforts are focused on helping to resolve the crises in urban schools serving fifteen million at-risk students by helping these school districts "grow their own" teachers and principals. Haberman is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. He served six years as editor of the Journal of Teacher Education

Journal of Teacher Education

The Journal of Teacher Education is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of Education. The journal's editors are Sandra J. Odell , Elizabeth Spalding , Jian Wang , Cari L. Klecka and Emily Lin...

, and eleven years as a dean in the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. The Haberman Educational Foundation promotes his methods; Delia Stafford-Johnson

Delia Stafford-Johnson

Delia Stafford-Johnson is the President and CEO of The Haberman Educational Foundation, Inc. in Houston, Texas.For nearly a decade, Ms. Stafford-Johnson directed the nation's largest school district-based alternative teacher certification program in Houston Independent School District...

is the president of the foundation.

Haberman is the author of several books and is widely cited in news media as an education expert, specializing in teaching training and the factors contributing to teacher success.

External links

• The Haberman Foundation
• Video interview with Martin Haberman