The National Common Core Curriculum and management by results

the business ideal in public education

Abstract

Considering the context of the preparation and approval of the National Common Core Curriculum in the decade between 2010 and 2020, this article problematizes the participation of the Lemann Foundation as one of the organizers of this process. Aiming to unveil this public-private partnership, we seek to comprehend and analyze the similarities between the Lemann Foundation and the National Common Core Curriculum The exploratory research, of a documentary nature, was guided by the dialectical historical materialism. From the analysis, we searched for the annual reports of the Lemann Foundation and introductory texts from the BNCC, as well as opinion articles in online magazines and newspapers and educational legislation. The analysis showed that the Foundation's participation in educational policies has strengthened, in addition to the public-private partnership, promoting the practice of managerialist management. In appearance, it seeks the quality of national education, as advocated by the Everyone for Education Movement, however, in its core, its interest is that one of the market, training workers with technical skills and competencies. As for the BNCC, the actions that culminated in its approval start from a particular ideological vision of the Lemann Foundation itself on how society should function, considering a society project regulated by business corporatism, meritocracy and entrepreneurship guided by managerialist educational assumptions.