Privatization

When I reported from South Africa in the 1960s, the Nazi admirer Johannes Vorster occupied the prime minister's residence in Cape Town. Thirty years later, as I waited at …

Short-term efforts to close budget gaps can have a disastrous long-term impact.

State and local governments are reconsidering whether companies should be allowed to profit off of taxpayer dollars with limited accountability.

The corporatization of everything is squeezing the life out of crucial institutions, chewing up the concept of the

Giroux writes on pedagogy and fundamentalism in his book, “America's Education Deficit and the War on Youth.”

A new nonprofit called inBloom will collect information from student records and provide third-party for-profit companies access to students' data.

Educational institutions are no longer safe from the reaches of profiteers.

Intelligence contract employees have no protections against employer retaliation, such as being fired.

There is no evidence the planned closings will improve educational outcomes or save the district money.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's attempt to close 54 public schools is one more example of a neoliberal system at work.