This paper provides the outcome of an investigation of the rationalities and ethical-political tensions expressed in the articles on school education conveyed by the newspaper Folha de São Paulo, from December 1996 - from the enactment of the Brazilian Law of Guidelines and Bases of National Education in force - to November 2006. Through an analysis of the empirical data headed by some of Michel Foucault's theoretical and methodological operators, it was possible to verify that, besides the proliferation of educational reports on the newspaper, the printed press aggregates, in a repetitive and circular way, reparative or reformist conceptions of contemporary school practices, in line with the academic production, the experts' knowledge, and the economic and political injunctions. In doing so, the journalistic discourse establishes itself as a powerful resource for the governmentalization of the attitudes and values shared by the population concerning the nature and range of the educational work nowadays.
Journalistic Discourse on Education; Governmentalization; Michel Foucault