Martin Haberman: Reports

Star Teachers: The Ideology and Best Practice of Effective Teachers of Diverse Children and Youth in Poverty (2005)
This  new volume is Prof. Haberman's latest analysis of the attributes and behaviors of star teachers. It represents forty five years of  observing, interviewing and analyzing the work of teachers who are so great they surmount  the debilitating conditions of working in even dysfunctional school bureaucracies.
Book Review
Star Teachers: the Ideology and Best Practice of Effective Teachers of Diverse Children and Youth in Poverty

What Can Be Done  With  Dysfunctional Urban School Districts? A Letter To Urban School Board Members
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Martin Haberman, Distinguished Professor - University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

The Star Classroom Management Protocol
The Haberman Educational Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of a new assessment tool for school districts, universities and researchers to answer the most frequently asked question in teaching, "Will this individual be able to manage a classroom?"

Conditions of Work in Urban Schools  Teacher Burnout in Black and White
Martin Haberman, Distinguished Professor - University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Scholars define teacher burnout as a condition caused by   depersonalization,  exhaustion and a diminished sense of accomplishment (Schwab et al. 1986).  A psychological model of how  stress leads to burnout describes it as  a   syndrome resulting from teachers' inability to protect themselves against threats to their self esteem and well being (Kyriacou and Sutcliffe 1978).

Achieving  "High Quality" in the  Selection, Preparation  and  Retention of  Teachers
Haberman Educational Foundation
Although the typical age of college graduates has risen from age 22 to age 26, it is still generally true that most of those preparing to teach are college age youth, that is, late adolescents and young adults. Approximately 80% of those preparing to teach are youngsters below age 26 and approximately 20% are older "non-traditional" post baccalaureate students or adults in alternative certification or on-the job training programs.

Can Star Teachers Create Learning Communities? To transform a school into a learning community a savvy educational leader needs to support the very best teachers.
Martin Haberman , Distinguished Professor - University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Successful schools share a number of attributes-----good leadership, a common vision that makes a climate of learning the highest priority, teachers who use best practices, an effective accountability system, and parent involvement. An attribute less frequently discussed is the manner in which the teachers and staff pursue their professional development.

Who Benefits from Failing Urban School Districts?
Martin Haberman , Distinguished Professor - University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
The paper argues that the growth and maintenance of 120 failed urban school districts miseducating diverse children in poverty for over half a century is a predictable, explainable phenomenon not a series of accidental, unfortunate, chance events. The extensive resources funneled into these systems are used for the purpose of increasing the district bureaucracies themselves rather than improving the schools or the education of the children.

The Rationale for Preparing Mature Adults as Teachers of  Diverse Children in Urban Poverty
Monday, November 8, 2004
Martin Haberman
Distinguished Professor
U. Wisconsin Milwaukee
Three thousand  youth drop out of school everyday. The achievement gaps between racial groups and economic classes continues to widen. The persistent  shortage of teachers who can be effective in 120 failing urban school systems guarantees that the miseducation of seven million diverse children in urban poverty will continue.

Creating Effective Schools in Failed Urban Districts
Martin Haberman , Distinguished Professor - University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
In my city 36% of African American students and 42% of Hispanic students graduate from high school. These graduation rates are not the lowest for students in these ethnic groups in the 120 major urban districts. Compare this with the graduation rates of students having handicapping conditions in  the United States as a whole:

Where The Public Schools Can Find $2.6 Billion  More-- Every Year.
Martin Haberman , Distinguished Professor - University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
The turnover of failure/quitter teachers costs the public schools $2.6 billion  each year. (Alliance for Education,2004) As mind boggling as this figure is the authors of this report believe that the $2.6 billion is a substantial underestimate since it does not take into account  the full costs to the districts of their teacher turnover.

URBAN EDUCATION THE STATE OF URBAN SCHOOLING AT THE START OF THE 21 ST CENTURY
Martin Haberman , Distinguished Professor - University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
The dictionary meaning of urban is simply " a term pertaining to a city or town."  In everyday parlance the term is used frequently to distinguish it from the terms rural, small town, suburban or ex-urban.

Selecting and Preparing Urban Teachers  
Monday, February 28, 2005
Martin Haberman , Distinguished Professor - University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Three thousand  youth drop out of school everyday. The achievement gaps between racial groups and economic classes continues to widen. The persistent  shortage of teachers who can be effective in 120 failing urban school systems guarantees that the miseducation of seven million diverse children in urban poverty will continue.

What Can Be Done  With  Dysfunctional Urban School Districts? A Letter To Urban School Board Members
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Martin Haberman , Distinguished Professor - University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
The constituencies who benefit from failing districts  have proven infinitely more powerful at maintaining these systems than the transformers  have  been at changing them. Negative trends in achievement, dropouts, suspensions, graduation rates, violence, teacher turnover and ever-rising costs have become quite predictable.

Haberman's Career Dedicated to Quality Public Education
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
By Kathy Quirk
Martin Haberman, distinguished professor emeritus of curriculum and instruction in UWM's School of Education, discovered his life's work while standing in a draft board line in New York City waiting to take a 30-word vocabulary test.

The Haberman Educational Foundation Helps School Districts Hire Quality Teachers and Principals for High-Need Students
For years, business and government have used personality and other tests to understand leadership and work styles of managers and employees. High school career centers offer preference assessments to help guide students on postsecondary education and career paths. Why not apply this approach as one indicator when hiring teachers?

"Alternative Certification: Intended and Unintended Consequence"
On September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia claimed the lives of over 2,795 innocent civilians. But every day of the school year an average of  3,000 innocent civilians drop out of high school and very few take notice. 

Interview with Delia Stafford, President of the Haberman Foundation
We limit our activities to those which will further our mission: "selecting the best teachers and principals for the children and youth of America".Martin Haberman

A Discussion with Martin Haberman: About Class Size
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Mary A. Arth
Cynthia Kleyn Kennedy
Michael F. Shaughnessy
Eastern New Mexico University
Portales, New Mexico
In this interview, Professor Martin Haberman responds to critical questions about the crucial issue of class size in an Age of No Child Left Behind. Over the next few months, he will examine other important, relevant issues pertaining to education.

Could I Pass the Haberman Star Teacher Test?
Education World
Martin Haberman's research reveals that not just anyone can or should teach in high-poverty schools. Wondering if she has what it takes to succeed in a challenging setting, Brenda Dyck decided to take Haberman's "Star Teacher" On-Line Pre-Screener test. Here she shares the results. Included: Web sites to help teachers assess and reflect on their teaching skills.

Why Harvard President's Apology to Women is Not Good Enough
Martin Haberman
In a recent address Lawrence H. Summers the President of Harvard stated that women may lag in science and math because of "intrinsic aptitude".  Since he made the remark the press has kept the story alive and his faculty has expressed grave doubts about his potential to continue as the leader of America's most prestigious university.