ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the harmful effects of corporate influence on instruction, bolstered by enterprise education policy. The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) is the decade's defining moment in education's gravity shift toward new public management or neoliberalism. However, in general, fewer studies have looked at how corporate-state dynamics originating at higher levels of government work their way into classroom settings. In 2002, columnist Stephen Metcalf described NCLB as the "successful culmination of a decade of educational reform spearheaded by conservatives and business leaders". Supplemental educational services (SES) are part of the choice provisions of NCLB. Companies decided against hiring tutors trained to work with English Language Learners (ELL) and students with special needs. The bill, as with other contracted-out education services and products, is paid for with government funds, in this instance funds that are meant for low-income students attending failing schools in the United States.
