Here is a review of The Flat World and Education: How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future, by Linda Darling-Hammond.

Read the review (replete with hyperlinks to resources) and post a comment on dailykos.com.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/1/24/82...national-future

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An important book about educational equity and our national future

by teacherken
Sun Jan 24, 2010 at 03:25:18 AM PST

"What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children. Any other ideal for our schools is narrow and unlovely; acted upon it destroys our democracy."

The words were penned by John Dewey for his 1900 work The School and Society. You will encounter them as a epigraph to the 9th and final chapter of an important new work on education. The Flat World and Education: How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future is a comprehensive work by Linda Darling-Hammond that examines a wide range of materials that will help the reader understand the real issues in education in an America that is increasingly diverse in its student population. As James Banks notes in his introduction, we face a crisis, one which Darling-Hammond documents while telling us what will happen if we fail to act and the specific actions we can take to achieve educational equity and create "a more democratic and just society."