The Haberman Educational Foundation is a not-for-profit foundation

Foundation (charity)

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 chartered in 1994 in accordance with the research of Dr. Martin Haberman

Martin Haberman

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...

 for selecting the best teachers and principals for the children and youth of America

United States

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.

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

President

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 and CEO

Chief executive officer

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. She travels throughout the United States to conduct seminars and train teachers and principals in all public school districts.

Board of Advisors

(as of November 2005):

• Arlene Ackerman
  Arlene Ackerman (educator)
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  , Superintendent
  Superintendent (education)
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   of the San Francisco school districts
• Anthony Catanese, President of the Florida Institute of Technology
  Florida Institute of Technology
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• Ricardo Fernandez, President of Lehman College
  Lehman College
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• Charles E.M.Kolb, President of the Committee for Economic Development
  Committee for Economic Development
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• Jimmy Kilpatrick
  Jimmy Kilpatrick
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  , Editor & Chief of EducationNews.org
• Mike McKibbin, California Teacher Credentialing
• Carl Patton, President of Georgia State University
  Georgia State University
  Georgia State University is a research university in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Founded in 1913, it serves about 30,000 students and is one of the University System of Georgia's four research universities...
  
  
• George E. Uhlig, Dean of the University of South Alabama
  University of South Alabama
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• Michael Wolfe
  Michael Wolfe
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  , Executive Director of Publishers, Kappa Delta Pi
  Kappa Delta Pi
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• Leo Klagholz , Former Commissioner of Education
  Commissioner of Education
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   in New Jersey
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External links

• The Haberman Educational Foundation