The school as a character

This book presents an analysis about the disclosure of the results of the National High School Exam (ENEM) in the Brazilian press in order to undertake a discussion about the functionality of journalism as a social mediator and the treatment of the theme education. In this sense the work deals with the evaluation systems of education especially ENEM; discusses the relationship between media and society considering the construction of a common sense and a public opinion around the educational system of Brazilian high school; and discusses about the construction of reality and truth associated with the journalistic practice. Such considerations serve as a theoretical basis for the development of discourse analysis undertaken according to the materials published in 2010 about the results of Enem in the newspapers Estado de Minas and Folha de S. Paulo.