This video is a chautuaqua speech by Linda Darling-Hammond entitled The Flat World and Education. Somewhere I am certain I have a book with the same title. Darling-Hammond typically speaks on the topics of equity and quality in education and on the topic of quality teacher education.
Her analysis of what countries that are sometimes regarded as more successful are doing is quite informative. According to her analysis, many proposed reforms are not consistent with the tactics employed elsewhere.