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Ted Hershberg, Professor, Public Policy & History and Director, Operation Public Education, University of Pennsylvania

Theodore Hershberg is Professor of Public Policy and History and Director of the Center for Greater Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has taught since 1967. He served as Assistant to the Mayor for Strategic Planning and Policy Development (1984-85) and was Acting Dean of Penn's School of Public and Urban Policy. He holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in American history from Stanford University. He has written extensively and lectured widely in three fields over his career: public school reform, city-suburban cooperation, and urban-industrial development. His most recent publication is Theodore Hershberg and Claire Robertson-Kraft, eds., A Grand Bargain for Education Reform: New Rewards and Supports for New Accountability (Harvard Education Press: August, 2009).