This paper analyzes the curricular policies in the context of globalization and neoliberalism that have guided the State's actions in the field of education, as a form of social regulation. Their impacts on public education have been significant, mainly in terms of curriculum, management, and teachers' work. Through typically managerialist assessment strategies, the State has succeeded in imposing curricular standards, in implementing teachers' education policies program, and in submitting schools and education to the market interests. Managerialism, insistently presented as a solution for education, arrives into schools as a strange management mode, and has thus been considered inadequate to face public school dilemmas. However, those regulation policies still constitute the main trend of the State educational policies.
Regulation; Curriculum; Managerialism; Teachers' work