ABSTRACT
In rich nations, corporations, governments, think tanks, and consultants have succeeded in privatizing, deregulating, and corporatizing public education to an unprecedented extent. Supranational organizations such as the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and World Trade Organization promote a for-profit model of schooling in poor countries, pushing educational development away from public school creation and toward privatization. Several multinational corporations aim to expand and dominate a future global market in for-profit school services. At the end of World War II the Allies established the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) during the Bretton Woods Agreement. Nationally based humanitarian organizations such as the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has been involved with so-called democracy promotion projects around the world that often involve projecting US power and influence over the political process. Ideally public education imagines individual opportunity as being inextricably linked to the formation of egalitarian social relations and the response to public problems.
