Description: This talk emphasizes the insidious growth of the textbook, testing, and drug industries and how they have taken over public schools and public policy so as to use these institutions and legislation to infuse their corporate agenda in the United States. The discussion will articulate the synergy that exists among corporate and government bodies and how this neoliberal assault is a clear attempt to eradicate the democratization of society and ensure the tyranny of market forces. I will examine this phenomena by looking at how these corporations have strategically used the discourses of standardization and discipline in a way that makes their efforts noble rather than malicious and thus provide an excellent example of their hegemonic intentions and why a war of position is so important in the fight to use civil society and the cracks of agency that schools continue to provide in order to take on capital and rehumanize and redemocratize public life.