This paper results from research on socio-historical processes that determine the current movement of counter-reforms in Brazilian educational policy. We sought to analyze the insertion of "behavioral modeling" proposals, a new organizing axis of the national curriculum to educate the working class. We used historical and dialectical materialism as a theoretical and methodological reference to increase our knowledge about the causes of this problem in the context of the current movement of bourgeois recomposition in the face of the 2008 crisis. We present the role international organizations, such as the World Bank, play in policy creation for educational reforms in the periphery of capitalism. We complemented our literature review with OECD and World Bank reports, documents produced by business organizations inserted in associative networks in civil society, with significant influence in the agencies of the state, such as the Ministry of Education. We conclude that there is a correspondence between the current metamorphoses in the world of work, characterized by intensified precariousness and overexploitation, and new changes proposed by the bourgeoisie for workers' education.