Mercado, performance, accountability. Duas décadas de retórica reaccionária na educa？？o

performance and efficiency stand as priorities in present educational politics. which were the reasons that led them to be the paradigm of educatinal systems replacing the comprehensive education? the following paper aims at rebuild and question the fundamental thesis that contributed to the evidence of a generalized crisis in the comprehensive education and the appearance of the model of efficient school, capable of taking part in a concurrent and global market, framed by a reactionary rhethoric, installed in usa and in the united kingdom in the past twenty years, and developping at a global scale. it is also the aim of this paper to reflect over the role of the sociologists in education in the understanding of the interaction among various educational agents at a global scale and the new implications of capitalism in educational politics.