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. There are vast material and ideological struggles at play in what corporations see as a multibillion-dollar industry ripe for the taking.
