Please join SCOPE and the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity for a talk and book signing by Linda Darling-Hammond on her new book, "The Flat World and Education: How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future."

A reception follows.

"Linda Darling-Hammond has written the definitive description of the problems that drag down the quality and equity of our educational system. Writing with passion, solid scholarship, and compassion, she presents a vision of the changes that are necessary to build a better education system and a brighter future for all our children and our nation."

— Diane Ravitch

"This book makes clear as a bell how to organize schools for successful teaching and what state and national policies are required to support it."

— Gov. James B. Hunt