This article aims to contribute with the debate on the quality of education in Brazil, by discussing the evaluation procedures which are in place, with emphasis on external evaluation based on standardized tests, and the democratization processes in the public school. It questions the place occupied by students and teachers in external evaluation and highlights other possible trajectories for evaluation, taking as references issues of daily life in school. It considers the necessity to discuss educational quality for the popular classes in consonance with the teachers' movement.
Evaluation; Daily school life; Heterogeneity
