ABSTRACT:
This essay list three theses against the "one fits all" thought which is trying to be established in Brazil on the assessment of effectiveness in improving school quality. The evaluation has been placed at the base of proposals for school reform and has served to justify a lot of pressure on schools and their professionals. These theses includes: the concept of "good education" informed by the means values obtained in the assessments; the relationship between macro policy and the micro policy in education and the role of the first in the modulation of public policy proposals; and the idea that the normal curve is a good reference for understanding the educational phenomenon. These theses, together, have the potential to establish a critique of the corporate reform, putting the Brazilian education in another perspective, emphasizing participatory accountability of educators to replace the vertical accountability.
Keywords:
Corporate reformers; Education concept; School micropolitics; Normal curve; Accountability