Brazilian high schools are in a time of transition. But a transition to where? This article helps find answers to this question by analyzing the changes in high school education and the various influences that shape the complex and controversial process of defining policies. It examines what can be classified as the beginning of a renewal process in the pedagogical and organizational rationality at this level of education, which has given rise to various modalities and forms of organizational and pedagogical work. The analysis also reveals the privileged role that a part of the business sector assumes in this renewal process. It identifies the curriculum and educational proposals that tend to standardize high school education at a national level even while there is a strong fragmentation within state networks and their political-educational management.
High school education; Business model of education; Educational policies; Integral high school education; Reconfiguration of public space; Entrepreneurship