Education Industry Facts: An Overview
Explore our clickable schoolhouse for a basement to ceiling look at the corporate takeover of the schools.

EMOs: Pedagogy for Profit
Wall St. calls them Educational Maintenance Organizations. Will they do for public education what HMOs have done for health care delivery in the U.S.? Critics fear they will make profit, not kids the bottom line.

Commercialism in the Classroom
You'll be shocked by just how far the corporate reach into the classroom goes...Almost every major corporation in the United States sponsors "educational" materials.

Race and Classroom: The Corporate Connection
Activist and researcher Libero Della Piana talks about the history of institutional racism in U.S. schools and how it leaves children of color vulnerable to corporate intervention in the classroom.

School Vouchers: Some Lessons
Vouchers take tax dollars out of local school budgets and allow parents to spend them in private schools. Conservatives describe this as school choice. We look at whether this represents real choice for most families.

Global Perspectives: A Neo-Liberal Education
Defunding public education is a worldwide trend. In many countries it is part of structural adjustment policies that involve broad privatization efforts that eliminate or scale back the social safety net. We look at examples from Chile, Mexico, Canada and the Asia-Pacific region.

Resources and Action
Here's where you can find both progressive educational reformers and the Education Industry on the web. Also, take a look at examples of some guidelines on commercialism in schools that you can bring to your local school board.